William Furley

Born 1953 in London William Furley studied Classics at University College London, where his father, David Furley, had also been a university lecturer in the 'fifties and 'sixties. In 1976 Furley studied for a year in Tübingen, S. Germany, with Konrad Gaiser, before returning to Trinity College Cambridge to study for the PhD, under the supervision of Geoffrey Kirk. Following that Furley returned to Tübingen with his first wife Alexandra, with whom he has two children Bettina and Philip, and worked as a research assistant in the classics department before being appointed as Assistent to Albrecht Dihle at Heidelberg University. There he has stayed, with semesters away for visiting teaching posts at Tübingen, Mannheim, Saarbrücken, till the present, where he is now apl. Professor of Classics at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie. In 2006 he was S.T. Lee Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, where he is also Senior Research Fellow. In Heidelberg he has taught on most classical Greek authors and published widely, mainly on various areas of Greek religion and, in the new millennium, Menander, and developed a passion for literary papyrology. Furley is married to Inga Gotsiridze-Furley, from Tbilisi, Georgia. Throughout his career in classics he has also pursued an interest in modern British poetry, with publications, readings in Heidelberg, translations, and the co-editing of a literary magazine.