dr Marcin Loch

Marcin Loch completed his Classical Philology studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 2012 and earned his PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2019.

His primary research interests include colloquial Latin, such as informal inscriptions (for example Pompeian graffiti as well as tabulae defixionum), Latin literature by Polish authors, Carmina Priapea, and the works of Martial, Catullus, and Petronius. He is also engaged in modern foreign language teaching methodologies which he applies in Latin education. He organized the Summer Schools of Living Latin in Poznań from 2013 to 2021 and has been involved in various Latin teaching initiatives using a direct approach. He contributed to the research grants Aristotelian Influences in Late Renaissance Polish Thought (2014-2016, NPRH no. 11H 13 0085 82) and The Origins of the Polish Language and Religious Culture in Medieval New Testament Apocrypha (2019-2022, NCN no. 2017/26/E/HS2/00083). Since 2017, he has overseen the Certamen Poeticum Sarbievianum (a competition in Latin poetry). Additionally, he has an interest in organ music, craftsmanship such as organ building and watchmaking, as well as technical literature in Latin related to these fields.

Selected published works:

Loch M., Latine loquor! – Czyli żywa łacina jako metoda dydaktyczna, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, tomus XXV, nr 2, pp. 137-151, http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/5728, 2015.

Loch M., Kilka uwag na temat polskiej edycji SEKSUALIZMÓW ŁACIŃSKICH Jamesa N. Adamsa, Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, tomus XXIV, nr 1, pp. 276-283, 2014.

Loch M., Żywa łacina – między prawdą a mitem. Zarys historii zjawiska oraz próba zdefiniowania terminu żywa łacina, Literary and Language Studies of Warsaw, nr 3, pp. 153-170, http://www.lingwistyka.edu.pl/Roczniki/Index, 2013.

Loch M., Facca Danilo, Brotto Luisa, Johannes Regius: Exercitationum peripateticarum libri II, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, Warszawa, 2020.

Loch M., Domagała Sebastian, Ochman Katarzyna, Latin Teaching in Poland: A New Renaissance with Communicative Approaches?, in „Communicative Approaches for Ancient Languages”, red. Mair E. Lloyd, Steven Hunt, pp. 161-177, Bloomsbury Publishing, London-New York-Oxford-New Delhi-Sydney, 2021.

Loch M., Łacińskojęzyczne źródła Żywota św. Anny, in „Źródła staropolskich apokryfów. Pytania, problemy, perspektywy”, Poznań, 10-11 grudnia 2020, Zakład Historii Języka Polskiego UAM, 2020.

Loch M., Animadversiones quaedam in marginalia exemplaris Sd.614.82 (BUW) Evangelii sec. Matthaeum, ed. Regimontanae (A.D. 1551) a Ioanne Malecio exarata, in „Nil sine litteris – scripta in honorem professoris Venceslai Walecki”, red. T. Nastulczyk, S. Siess-Krzyszkowski, Kraków 2018, pp. 465-478.