Burkhard Mojsisch

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Burkhard Mojsisch (born August 13, 1944 in Guben ; † June 22, 2015 ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Live and act

Mojsisch received his doctorate in 1974 at the Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on Dietrich von Freiberg , and in 1982 he completed his habilitation there with a paper on Meister Eckhart . In 1987 he was appointed adjunct professor in Bochum and promoted to professor in 1992. He later succeeded Kurt Flasch as a full professor of philosophy with special emphasis on the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages . In summer 2009 Mojsisch retired.

Mojsisch was director and co-editor of the Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi , co-editor of the Bochum Philosophical Yearbook for Antiquity and the Middle Ages , co-editor of the Bochum Studies on Philosophy and external member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences .

His research areas were ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle , and medieval philosophy, especially Meister Eckhart, Dietrich von Freiberg and Nikolaus von Kues .

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • The theory of the intellect in Dietrich von Freiberg (= supplements to Dietrich von Freiberg Opera omnia. Supplement 1). Hamburg 1977.
  • Master Eckhart. Analogy, Univocality and Unity. Hamburg 1983.
    • Translation: Meister Eckhart. Analogy, Univocity and Unity. Translated with a Preface and an Appendix by Orrin F. Summerell. Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2001.

As editor:

  • Philosophy of Language in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bochum Colloquium, 2nd – 4th June 1982 (= Bochum Studies for Philosophy. Vol. 3). Amsterdam 1986.
  • with Theo Kobusch : Plato. His dialogues in terms of new research. Darmstadt 1996 (special edition: 2005).
  • with Theo Kobusch: Plato in the occidental intellectual history. New research on Platonism. Darmstadt 1997 (special edition: 2006).
  • with Olaf Pluta, Rudolf Rehn (vol. 1–13) or with Manuel Baumbach , Olaf Pluta (vol. 14–17): Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter. Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1997–2015.
  • with Christoph Asmuth , Friedrich Glauner : The Limits of Language. Language immanence - language transcendence. Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1998.
  • with Karl-Hermann Kandler , Franz-Bernhard Stammkötter: Dietrich von Freiberg. New perspectives on his philosophy, theology and natural science (= Bochum studies on philosophy. Vol. 28). Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1999.
  • with Orrin F. Summerell: Philosophy in its disciplines. An introduction. Bochum lecture series winter semester 1999/2000 (= Bochum studies on philosophy. Vol. 35). Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2002.
  • with Theo Kobusch, Orrin F. Summerell: Self - Singularity - Subjectivity. From Neoplatonism to German idealism. Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2002.
  • with Orrin F. Summerell: Platonism in Idealism. The Platonic tradition in classical German philosophy. Munich / Leipzig 2003.
  • with Matthias Bloch: Potentials of the human mind: freedom and creativity. Practical Aspects of Philosophy Marsilio Ficinos (1433–1499). Stuttgart 2003.
  • with Kirsten Schmidt, Klaus Steigleder: The topicality of Kant's philosophy. Bochum lecture series summer semester 2004 (= Bochum studies on philosophy. Vol. 42) Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2005.
  • with Stefan Jordan: Philosophers' Lexicon. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009.

literature

  • Burkhard Mojsisch, in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 23rd edition (2009). Vol. 3, p. 2785.
  • Philosophy in Global Change. Jubilee volume dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Burkhard Mojsisch. Edited by Tengiz Iremadze in collaboration with Helmut Schneider and Klaus J. Schmidt. Tbilisi 2011.
  • Veritas et subtilitas: Truth and Subtlety in the History of Philosophy. Essays in memory of Burkhard Mojsisch (1944-2015) . Edited by Tengiz Iremadze and Udo Reinhold Jeck. (= Bochum studies on philosophy. Vol. 59) Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 26, 2015, trauer.de, accessed on June 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mojsisch, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2015