Gábor Betegh

Gábor Betegh (born June 20, 1968 ) is a Hungarian historian of philosophy in the field of ancient philosophy and the eighth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University .

Life

Betegh graduated from Eötvös Loránd University , Budapest in 1991 with a BA . This was followed in 1993 by a DEA at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris , and a parallel research degree at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-St. Cloud (1992/94) with Bernard Besnier . In 1997/1998 a research stay at Cambridge University with David Sedley , his predecessor as Laurence Professor, followed. He received his doctorate in 1999 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Eötvös Loránd University with a dissertation on the Derveni papyrus under the title: Cosmology, Theology, and Exegesis in the Derveni Papyrus with Jacques Brunschwig and Kornél Steiger .

From 1997 to 2000 he was also Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Philosophy at the University of Pécs , subsequently (2000/2001) Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . From 2001 to 2014 he taught and researched in the Philosophy Department of the Central European University , Budapest , from 2005 as Associate Professor, from 2008 as Professor. Since October 2014 he has been the eighth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University and at the same time Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Christ's College , Cambridge.

He also holds a visiting professorship at the Central European University. In 2007 he was visiting professor at Cornell University .

Research areas

Betegh is a historian of philosophy and religion. He works in particular on metaphysics , cosmology and theology of antiquity. In 2004 he published The Derveni Papyrus with Cambridge University Press , a text-critical edition and interpretation of the Derveni Papyrus , for which he received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award .

Fonts (selection)

• The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004 (paperback 2007).
• (Ed.): The Divine and the Human in the Presocratic Age. In: Rhizomata 1.2 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013.
• with Julia Annas : Cicero's De Finibus: Philosophical Approaches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015.

Web links

• Personal page at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (with photograph and list of publications)
• Personal page at Christ's College, Cambridge (with photograph)
• Personal page at the Topoi Cluster of Excellence (with photography)
• Personal page at the Central European University (includes photography and curriculum vitae)