Herbert Verreth
Role in Trismegistos Apart from keeping the databases nice and clean by daily routine checks, Herbert also takes care of data entry, especially of texts and places. The Trismegistos Places databases are the realm over which he reigns. Some have labeled him 'monsieur toponyme'; some have styled him 'Datenbankpolizei'; some have called him 'The Herbmeister'; we prefer to call him the Guardian Angle of Trismegistos.
Executive summary CV Herbert Verreth studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Belgium. He is Master in Classical Philology (1988), Baccalaureus in Economical Studies (1988), Master in Archaeology (1993) and Doctor in Ancient History (1998). He has been part-time lector at the Universiteit Gent (UG), the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB), the Europese Hogeschool Brussel (EHSAL) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). He has been working for the Prosopographia Ptolemaica and related databases of the Section of Ancient History of the KUL since 1993. Since 2005 he is a collaborator to the Trismegistos database both in Cologne and in Leuven. His scientific work focuses on historical topography of the ancient world and the reception of classical antiquity in movies, comics, novels and children's books.