Alexis Hellmer is a Mexican Latinist and classicist and the founder of Studium Angelopolitanum. He is a Professor of the

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language and literature at the

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and at the

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. Professor Hellmer is an alumnus of Luigi Miraglia's

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. As a student, he spent one year in

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learning Latin language and classical humanities. From 2009 to 2012, he taught (ancient) Latin literature at Vivarium Novum. A proponent of

Hans Ørberg Hans Henning Ørberg (21 April 1920 – 17 February 2010) was a Danish linguist and teacher. He received a master's degree in English, French, and Latin at the University of Copenhagen and taught these languages in schools in Denmark. He was the ...

's natural method of

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, he has been ranked among the top Latin speakers in the world. In 2015 and 2016, he served as ''repetitor'' (teaching staff) at Rusticatio Virginiana and Conventiculum Bostoniense. In February 2017, Professor Hellmer was a speaker in the Living Latin in New York City conference, organized by the Paideia Institute and Fordham University of New York.Archived a
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hellmer, Alexis 1984 births Living people Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla faculty Mexican classical scholars Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla faculty

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