Niels Gaul

Niels Gaul studied Byzantine history and Classics at the universities of Bonn, Cologne, and Oxford. Before joining CEU’s Department of Medieval Studies in November 2007, he was Dilts-Lyell Research Fellow in Greek Palaeography at the University of Oxford (in association with Lincoln College), 2005–7; a junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University, 2004/5; and a lecturer in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in the University of Cologne, 2002–4. In 2006, he became the founding programme director of the biennial Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography. In May 2008, he was appointed director of CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions.

At CEU, he teaches Byzantine history, culture and rhetoric from c.600 to 1453, as well as classes on medieval Greek manuscript studies and current literary theory.