Andreas Jonathan Willi FBA (born 17 December 1972 in Altstätten) is a Swiss linguist, philologist, and classicist. He is currently the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is one of the editors of Glotta . In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[1] In 2019, Willi was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[2]
Willi studied Classics and Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Basel (lic.phil. in 1997), and comparative philology at the Universities of Lausanne, Michigan, and Fribourg (lic.phil in 1998).[3] He completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in 2001 with a thesis on The languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies. During his time at Oxford, he was a member of Corpus Christi College.[4] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a lecturer for Latin and Greek philology at the University of Basel, before joining the Istituto Svizzero di Roma as a researcher. He was called to the chair of comparative philology at Oxford in 2005.