StR Dr. Danilo Valentino

Education and professional career

Dr. Danilo Valentino is a secondary school teacher and Studienrat at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and a lecturer at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, and Modern Greek Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). He studied Classical Philology and Byzantine Studies at the University of Turin from 2007 to 2012 and completed his doctorate in Greek Philology between 2015 and 2019 at the Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 950, "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe," at the University of Hamburg. During his doctoral studies, he received funding from the DAAD and the FAZIT Foundation. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, and Modern Greek Studiess at LMU Munich, supported by a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. In 2022, he also served as a visiting professor of Byzantine Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in Georgia. After completing supplementary teacher training for the subjects of Greek and Latin at the University of Würzburg, he undertook his practical teacher training at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg from 2022 to 2024. In the 2024/25 school year, he served as a teacher and Studienrat a. P. at the Graf-Rasso-Gymnasium in Fürstenfeldbruck. As part of his doctoral work and subsequent research projects, Dr. Danilo Valentino undertook several research stays at international institutions. These include the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Trustees for Harvard University) in Washington, D.C.; the Laboratoire Saprat (Savoirs et pratiques du Moyen Âge à l'époque moderne) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris; the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; and the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies in Thessaloniki. Danilo Valentino coordinates the "Forum Byzantinum" initiative—in cooperation with Maximiliansgymnasium Munich and the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History, and Modern Greek Studies at LMU Munich—as well as the "Forum Italicum" initiative, in cooperation with Maximiliansgymnasium Munich and the Institute of Italian Philology at LMU Munich. He is also a member of the Commission for the Investigation of Byzantine Medical Studies (CIBMS). His research interests focus particularly on integrating Byzantine studies into secondary school Greek curricula, the history of Byzantine medicine, the transmission of specialized Greek texts, and the history of Byzantine manuscripts and their contexts of knowledge.

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