Arbogast Schmitt

Arbogast Schmitt (born April 24, 1943 in Linz in Upper Austria ) is a German Graecist and professor of classical philology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Schmitt graduated from high school in Würzburg in 1962 and then studied Greek , Latin , philosophy and German at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin . After the state examination, he was a student trainee and teacher at high schools in Würzburg ( Riemenschneider-Gymnasium , Röntgen-Gymnasium ) and Aschaffenburg until 1972 . From 1972 to 1981 he was assistant to Ernst Siegmann at the seminar for classical philology in Würzburg. In 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "The meaning of sophistic logic for the middle dialectic of Plato ". 1981 followed, also in Würzburg, the habilitation with the topic "Character and Fate in Sophocles ' ' King Oedipus '".

In 1982 he was given a chair for Greek studies at the University of Mainz. In 1991 he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg, where he works with a research focus on the relationship between the Platonic-Aristotelian epistemology and the epistemology of the modern age and the resulting consequences for the different understandings of aesthetics , ethics and politics in ancient and modern times . He heads the research group on the reception of Hellenistic-Roman antiquity in modern times and its consequences for the opposition of antiquity and modernity, as well as the research group on Aristotelian rationality as the basis of the cultural bridge between Orient and Occident in the Middle Ages. He retired in September 2008.

In addition to an extensive edition of articles and the writing of some monographs, Schmitt is intensively active as a translator and editor and oversaw the edition of the lexicon of the early Greek epic as chairman of the commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , of which he has been a corresponding member since January 2008, until the end of the Project in 2011. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary teaching and research network “Images of People”.

On July 14, 2011, Schmitt held his farewell lecture at Marburg University. The Department of Philosophy and Humanities at FU Berlin has appointed Schmitt as honorary professor since 2011 .

Works

Editions, translations, comments

Translation and commentary on Aristotle's “ Poetics ” as part of the “German Aristotle” published by Hellmut Flashar .
Translation and commentary on “Plato, State V-VII” as part of the Plato edition of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, edited by Ernst Heitsch and Carl Werner Müller.
Edition and commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Early Writings on Classical Philology as part of the Critical Complete Edition, Berlin / New York 1967ff.

Co-edits

Ernst Siegmann: Homer. Lectures on the Odyssey , ed. by Joachim Latacz , Arbogast Schmitt, Erika Simon , Würzburg 1987.
Joachim Latacz: Development of antiquity. Small writings on the literature of the Greeks and Romans , ed. by Fritz Graf , Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg , Arbogast Schmitt, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1994.

Monographs

The significance of sophistic logic for Plato's middle dialectic , Diss.Würzburg 1974.

Character and fate in Sophocles' »King Oedipus« (unpublished habilitation thesis Würzburg 1980).

Independence and dependence on human action in Homer . Hermeneutic studies on Homer's psychology , AAWM 1990/5, Stuttgart 1990.

Autocoscienza moderna e interpretazione dell'antichità: la loro reciproca interdipendenza illustrata sull'esempio della fondazione critica della conoscenza in Platone e Cartesio , Naples 1993.

The individual and the community in Homer's poetry and in Plato's theory of the state . On the derivation of the state theory from psychology , Stuttgart 2000 (depending on the Frankfurt Academy of Sciences; 38.2).