TLL Summer School in Latin Lexicography: July 27–31, 2026
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae Institute invites applications for its annual Summer School in Latin Lexicography, scheduled to take place in Munich from July 27 to 31, 2026. Applicants should be doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, or professors whose research engages closely with ancient Latin vocabulary. In addition to classical philology, relevant disciplines include ancient history, epigraphy, linguistics, literary and textual criticism, medieval and Renaissance studies, philosophy, and theology.
The program involves three types of activity. First, seminars and related exercises address Latin lexicography in general, the methods and format of the TLL, and less familiar text corpora (e.g. ancient grammarians, inscriptions, the Vetus Latina Bible translation). Secondly, participants collaborate in the production of a short lexicographic entry that will be published in a forthcoming fascicle (lemma to be determined). Lastly, there is some time for participants to pursue their own research in the Thesaurus Library and Archive; we encourage researchers with more extensive projects to plan a longer stay.
The Thesaurus linguae Latinae Institute is home to the world’s most comprehensive record of the Latin language (ca. 600 BCE to 600 CE), consisting of about ten million handwritten slips, and a world-class library of editions, commentaries, and relevant reference material. Many editions are annotated with systematic cross-references to recent discussions of individual words in scholarly journals and other publications, as well as annotations from former owners and specialists (e.g. Eduard Fraenkel, Wilhelm Heraeus, Eduard Norden, Eduard Wölfflin). The Archive also contains all the unpublished material for the TLL Onomasticon, a record of all proper names and their derivatives (e.g. Homerus, palatium). The Bavarian Academy also houses the Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch and is not far from the Bavarian State Library, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, and the German Archaeological Institute.
The workshop begins at 9:30 am on July 27. Daily activities typically run from 9:30 until roughly 5:00pm, with some optional evening excursions. Participants are responsible for their own housing; occasional refreshments will be provided. The language of group instruction is English, but one-on-one support is available in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Applications must be received by February 28, 2026 by email to summerschool@thesaurus.badw.de. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a a one-page Statement of Benefit, which describes what they hope to learn or accomplish. Active research plans that draw on material in the TLL Archive or address specific words are strongly encouraged. There is only space for fifteen participants, who will be notified by March 15.
Contact: summerschool(at)thesaurus.badw.de
Application due: February 28, 2026
Participation fee: €120
Location: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11, 80539, Munich, Germany