Philologist. Latin and Ancient Greek — from Hesiod to the institutional Latin still written today, by way of the religious books that carried both languages for two thousand years.
Twenty-two years of practice; founder of EnLatin.
Education
- PhD, Philology — Università di Verona, 2021
Dissertation: Mediterranean Gods as Governing States of Mind - MA, Classical Philology — Yale University, 2017
- BA, Classics — Ancient Greek and Latin — Istanbul University, 2014
Languages
- Greek
- native
- English
- fluent (US)
- Latin
- fluent
- Italian
- advanced
- Turkish
- fluent
- Ancient Greek
- mastery: Attic, Homeric, Aeolic, Ionic, Doric, Koine
Practice
Independent linguistic practice from 2004, alongside three overlapping institutional strands.
Academic and research
2012–2017Linguistic and philological research on student educational pathways; field inscriptions and epigraphic administration; research translation. Specialist Researcher at Istanbul University, and mentor in its philology and classics classes.
Library and archival
2012–2021Advisory work on research holdings for institutions in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Public and cultural
2016–2023State consultancy on culture and history for tourism and archaeology.
Published translations
- Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, Book VII (2024) — complete translation from the Latin.
- Inaugural Medico-Chirurgical Dissertation on Tear Duct Fistula (2024) — translation from the Latin.
Teaching
Greek to local communities, 2022–2025, under CEFR accreditation through the Council of Europe framework.
Affiliation
Istanbul Lutheran Church, Beyoğlu — where the archives have been a continuing part of the work.
How I came to Latin
I read Johann Weyer in my youth. Then Apuleius of Madaura, the Platonic philosopher; Aristotle’s Physics; De Civitate Dei; the Opera Varia; the Hermetica; Berossus. Then Bodin, Boehme, Dupotet, Galileo, the Rubáiyát, the Poemandres — and a great deal more, in no order anyone designed.
The through-line, if there is one, is philosophy, theology and theosophy, and everything those disciplines reached for on their way: natural science, medicine, the study of the anima, animal magnetism. Latin was not a subject I took up. It was the door each of those books stood behind, and after thirty years of opening it the language stopped being a door at all.
Latin and Ancient Greek commissions at EnLatin are handled personally. They are not subcontracted or outsourced.