Friedrich Niewöhner

Friedrich Niewöhner (born September 7, 1941 in Schwelm ; † November 1, 2005 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German historian of philosophy .

Niewöhner received his doctorate in 1971 in Bochum with Richard Schaeffler with the dissertation "Dialogue and Dialectics in Plato's Parmenides". From 1975 until the Islamic Revolution under Ruhollah Khomeini , he was an Associated Professor at the University of Shiraz in Iran and at the same time headed the Goethe Institute there . With his book Veritas sive Varietas. Lessing's tolerance parable and the book about the three fraudsters he completed his habilitation in 1983 at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1986 Niewöhner was deputy director, later head of the research department of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and also taught as an adjunct professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin .

Niewöhner's specialties were the philosophy of Judaism and Islam . He has published numerous works on these topics in German, English and Ivrit . He was co-editor of the historical dictionary of philosophy and frequently published reviews in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Fonts

• Dialogue and dialectics in Plato's Parmenides (1971)
• Maimonides. Enlightenment and Tolerance in the Middle Ages (1988)
• Veritas sive Varietas. Lessing's tolerance parable and the book of the three tricksters (1988)
• Scholems Sabbatai Zwi - Mysticism and Modernity (1992)
• (Ed., Together with Dietrich Blaufuß): Gottfried Arnold (1666-1714). With a bibliography of Arnold literature from 1714 (compiled by Hans Schneider) . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1995 ( Wolfenbütteler Research , edited by the Herzog August Library, 61)

literature

• Frank Griffel : Friedrich Niewöhner 1941-2005 . In Die Welt des Islams , Volume 46, No. 1 (2006), pp. 1-6.
• Navid Kermani : Your name. Roman, Carl Hanser, Munich 2011, pp. 29–33.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Niewöhner in the catalog of the German National Library
• An obituary for Friedrich Niewöhner