Dr. Tobias Hirsch

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Raum: Raum Ulmenstr. 52h, EG

Curriculum Vitae

Career

since November 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Classics Lab
August 2024 – June 2025 International Research Fellow, Fudan University, Shanghai
July 2019 − November 2023 PhD-student at the University of Heidelberg
Title of my dissertation: „Politisches Consulting im vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. − Die Briefe des Isokrates“
Supervisors: Professor Jonas Grethlein; Professor Kai Trampedach
Date of defence: 17.11.2023 (magna cum laude)
September 2020 − September 2023 PhD-scholarship (Gerda Henkel Foundation)
March − April 2023 Full scholarship at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité classique in Vandoeuvres, Switzerland
October 2022 Collaboration on the epigraphical edition IG X, Scythia Minor Histria / Tomi / Callatis, Romania; supervisors: Professor Klaus Hallof; Professor Christof Schuler
March 2022 − May 2022 Research stay in Greece
DAI, École Française, British and American School in Athens
July 2021 − September 2021 Research stay in Cambridge (St. Catherine’s College)
Cambridge-Scholarship from the University of Heidelberg
October 2012 − May 2019 Erstes Staatsexamen (BA + MA) in History and Latin (very good) as well as in Ancient Greek (excellent)
Title of my thesis: „Plutarchs Parallelbiographie Solon-Publicola“ (excellent), supervisor: Professor Kai Trampedach
December 2015 − now Participation and presentation at multiple conferences in Classics (Oxford, Fribourg, Gießen, Hamburg)

 

Teaching and Organization

October 2025 – March 2026 “AI in Contexts” (2h per week), main coordinator and teacher, UTN
February 2025 – June 2025 “The Philippos of Isocrates” (4h per week), Fudan University, Shanghai
September 2024 − January 2025 “Ancient Greek for Beginners” (4h per week), Fudan University, Shanghai
since November 2023 Design of the MA-program “Human and Artificial Intelligence” (Humanities, Social Studies, and Computer Science), University of Technology Nuremberg
October 2020 − July 2023 Organization of research conferences in Classics (5 terms)
University of Heidelberg; University of Mannheim
October 2019 − July 2021 Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg
Ancient Greek Prose Composition (4h per week); Latin Prose − The Letters of Pliny the Younger (2h per week);
Latin Prose − Acta Apostolorum (2h per week); Tutor in Ancient History, (3 terms, 2h per week)

 

Publications

Monographs

  • Hirsch, Tobias. Die Briefe des Isokrates: Politische Ratschläge und soziale Netzwerke im vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hypomnemata 223. Göttingen, 2025.

Journal Articles

  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2026. “The Daimonion of Isocrates: Anti-Socratic Polemics and the Power of Politikoi Logoi in the Philippos.”
    Rhetorica 44, no. 1, 64−82. https://doi.org/10.1353/rht.2026.a985668
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2025. “Der Ausbruch des Krieges zwischen Makedonien und Athen 340 v. Chr. und [Dem.] 12.”
    Historia 74, no. 2: 161–184. https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2025-0007
  • Hirsch, Tobias, and Florian Feil. 2024. “Drei hellenistische Dekrete aus Istros.”
    Dacia N.S. 68, 461–466. https://doi.org/10.59277/dacia.2024.17
  • Hirsch, Tobias, and Lorenzo Sardone. 2024. “P.Gen. inv. 376: Ein neues Fragment von Isokrates’ Panegyrikos.”
    Archiv für Papyrusforschung 70, no. 2, 272–277. https://doi.org/10.1515/apf-2024-0017
  • Hirsch, Tobias, and Caroline Albert. 2024. “Edition, English Translation and Commentary on the Delphic Hymns of Athenaios and Limenios.”
    Athenian Inscriptions at Delphi (AID). View Publication
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2023. “Sieben Jahre harte Arbeit und die Bitte um einen Vertrag: Eine Korrespondenz unter Frauen.”
    Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 226: 115–122.
  • Hirsch, Tobias, and Nicolai Futás. 2023. “Eine Konjektur zu Aischines Gegen Ktesiphon, 25.”
    Hermes 151, no. 4: 494–499. https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2023-0039
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2023. “Speusipps Reise nach Makedonien: Eine Konjektur zu Diogenes Laertius (4.1) und Flavius Philostrat (Ap. 1.35).”
    Hermes 151, no. 3: 373–378. https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2023-0029
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2022. “Thucydides on Aetolia: A Lesson on Cultural History and the Possibilities of Historical Learning.”
    Ancient Society 52: 69–96. View Publication
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2021. “Funktion und Zweck des Nächtlichen Ausschusses in Platons Nomoi.”
    Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft 45: 145–192. View Publication
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2021. “Altern mit Stil: Isokrates’ Gerontologie.”
    Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 24, no. 1: 1–30. View Publication

Reviews

  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2025. Émeline Marquis and Peter von Möllendorff (eds.), Brief und Macht. Pseudonyme
    Briefsammlungen der Antike (Millennium Studies in the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E. 109).
    Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 28: 1025–30. https://doi.org/10.14628/gfa.2025.1.115254.
  • Hirsch, Tobias. 2024. Janja Soldo and Claire Rachel Jackson (eds.), res vera, res ficta:
    Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 149).
    Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2023. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 27: 1031–34. https://doi.org/10.14628/gfa.2024.1.110385.