André Laks

André Laks (born May 28, 1950 ) is a French classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

After attending the Lycée Carnot in Paris, Laks studied philosophy and graduated in 1971 with a master's degree. He obtained his doctorate in 1977 with Jean Bollack in Lille with a critical edition including translation and commentary on the fragments and testimony of Diogenes von Apollonia . A year later he completed his habilitation with Bollack and Jacques Bompaire at the Paris Sorbonne with a thesis on the political thinking of Plato ( Loi et persuasion. Sur la structure de la pensée politique platonicienne ).

In 1988, Laks was appointed Professor of Greek Philology at Lille University. Three years later, in 1991, he accepted an appointment as full professor of the history of philosophy at Princeton University . In 1994 he returned to Lille with the same title. In 2007 he became professor for ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne, meanwhile he has retired. He currently teaches at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City .

Laks is the son of the composer and Auschwitz survivor Simon Laks .

Web links

• Literature by and about André Laks in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about André Laks in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Homepage of André Laks (French; contains a short biography of his father Simon Laks)