Terence Tunberg | |
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 Professor of Latin | |
| Born | 1950 |
| Occupation | Latinist |
| Spouse | Jennifer Tunberg |
| Parent | Karl Tunberg |
Terence Tunberg is a professor of Latin at the University of Kentucky, specialising in Neo-Latin studies, especially the use of Ciceronian language; and the use of spoken Latin as a teaching tool. He is also Director of the university's Institute for Latin Studies. [1] His academic output is in both Latin and English.
Terence and Jennifer Tunberg, his wife, have translated a number of chldren's books into Latin. These include Cattus Petasatus: The Cat in the Hat in Latin in 2000, How the Grinch Stole Christmas , [2] Arbor Alma: The Giving Tree In Latin in 2002, and Green Eggs and Ham In Latin: Virent Ova! Viret Perna in 2003. [3]
They described translations of the Grinch as difficult, given the informality of the language, but attempted something that was playful but not so idiomatic as to be hard to read. [2]
He is a "proponent of Latin speaking as a means of helping with language learning and, for more advanced students, as a way to consolidate knowledge of the language." [4] He founded and convenes the annual Lexington Latin Conventiculum, the first of its kind in the USA. [4] [5]
Together with Milena Minkova, Tunberg founded an MA programme in Latin that uses the language as the medium of instruction in the University of Kentucky in 2000. Students from these programmes have gone on to found their own Living Latin events around the US, helping to build the practice. [6] While he is "convinced that using Latin for communication and active discourse with students enhances the quality of both learning and teaching", he also believes that Latin should be taught differently from living languages, not least as reading is an early goal, and does not practice 'full immersion', i.e. teaching Latin through Latin at an early stage. [7]
He was elected a fellow of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae in 1998, an institution that promotes the use of spoken Latin. [8] His own spoken Latin is of a very high standard, sometimes better than his English, [9] and he is able to "discuss absolutely any subject in Latin with clarity and eloquence". [10]
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Neo-Latin is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries' Italian Renaissance, and then across northern Europe after about 1500, as a key feature of the humanist movement. Through comparison with Latin of the Classical period, scholars from Petrarch onwards promoted a standard of Latin closer to that of the ancient Romans, especially in grammar, style and spelling. The term Neo-Latin was however coined much later, probably in Germany in the late 1700s, as Neulatein, spreading to French and other languages in the nineteenth century.
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was used from 75 BC to the 3rd century AD, when it developed into Late Latin. In some later periods, it was regarded as good or proper Latin, with following versions viewed as debased, degenerate, or corrupted. The word Latin is now understood by default to mean "Classical Latin"; for example, modern Latin textbooks almost exclusively teach Classical Latin.
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