Born in 1988 in Berlin, Simon Strauss studied Classics and History in Basel, Politiers, and Cambridge. In 2017 he completed his doctorate at Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on Conceptions of Roman Society in Theodor Mommsen and Mattias Gelzer. He lives in Frankfurt, where he works as the arts section editor of Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung.
