Thomas Zinsmaier

Thomas Zinsmaier is a Lecturer at the Department of General Rhetoric and Philology, University of Tübingen, with a career spanning Latin, philosophy, and history. His work focuses on ancient rhetoric theory, humanist rhetoric, topical theory, and figure theory. He previously served as an editor for the DFG project "Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric" from 1994 to 2011, contributing to antiquity, medieval, and Renaissance periods.

His research explores Roman declamations, fictitious court speeches from the early imperial era, and the interplay between rhetoric and classical philosophy. He has published extensively on Quintilian, Cicero, and early humanist texts, with a 2021 co-edited book on Peuerbach's rhetoric and poetics. His 15 most recent publications cover themes like rhetorical lexikographie, epideictic speech, and topical analysis.

Thomas Zinsmaier holds a PhD in Latin from the University of Konstanz (1992), with a dissertation on pseudo-Quintilianic declamations. He teaches Latin and collaborates with scholars like Joachim Knape and Thomas Schirren on classical and humanist rhetoric. His academic output includes monographs, journal articles, and book reviews in fields such as Ancient Rhetoric Theory, Humanist Rhetoric, and Classical Latin Studies.