About
Sebastiaan Clercx is a Research Fellow (former staff) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Department of Classics within the Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, affiliated with the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. His research focuses on Scholarly Forgetting in the History of the Humanities and educational challenges in classical language teaching. He concurrently pursues a PhD at Universiteit van Amsterdam's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, examining dilemmas in curricular text selection for classical languages in Dutch secondary schools.
His academic journey includes MA theses on Latin etymology and narrative immersion in Homeric epics. He collaborates widely, presenting at international workshops like King’s College London’s Sharing Ancient Wisdoms. His work bridges classical philology with modern pedagogical and historiographic questions, emphasizing interdisciplinary dialogue between ancient studies and humanities methodologies.
Key research themes include non-canonical text integration in education, the role of forgotten scholarly traditions, and comparative analyses of ancient religious systems. Though no awards are listed, his active publication record reflects engagement with high-impact journals like History of Humanities and Lampas.
