Christian Mueller-Goldingen

Christian Mueller-Goldingen (born December 21, 1954 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German classical philologist .

He studied classical philology , philosophy and theology in Saarbrücken and Brussels and received his doctorate in Saarbrücken in 1985 with a thesis on Euripides , followed by his habilitation in 1992 with a study on Xenophon . Since 1994 he has been Professor of Classical Philology / Greek Studies at the Institute of Classical Philology at the Technical University of Dresden .

Mueller-Goldingen's main research interests are ancient tragedy, ancient philosophy, including especially Aristotle , Plato , ancient poetry, theories of poetry and ancient political philosophy, as well as philosophy of science including modern philosophy. In addition, Mueller-Goldingen works on logical empiricism ( Bertrand Russell ), Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle ( Rudolf Carnap ).

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Investigations into the Phoenicians of Euripides , 1985.
• Investigations into Xenophons Kyrupädie , 1995.
• Aristotle , 2003.
• The small and the big , 2004.
• Studies in Ancient Drama , 2005.
• Poets and Society , 2006.
• Xenophon, Philosophy and History , 2007.
• Poetry and Philosophy among the Greeks , 2008.
• Greek tragedy. Authors, Topics, Perspectives , 2010.
• Bertrand Russell, studies on his philosophical work , Berlin 2013.
• Aristotle, 'Politics'. Introduction and commentary in two volumes , Heidelberg 2016 a. 2019.

As editor:

• since 2006: Current Antiquity. Contributions to the literature of the Greeks and Romans , together with Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Wolfgang Bernard .
• Lēnaika. Festschrift for Carl Werner Müller on his 65th birthday , Stuttgart 1996.
• Writings on Aristotelian ethics , Hildesheim a. a. 1988.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Mueller-Goldingen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Mueller-Goldingen at the TU Dresden