Christian Pietsch
Christian Pietsch (born April 28, 1960 in Darmstadt ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
After graduating from high school at the old-language Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium and completing military service, Pietsch studied Classical Philology, Classical Archeology and Philosophy at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen from 1980, and since 1981 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After the First State Examination (1986), Pietsch received a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung from 1987 to 1988 . From 1988 he worked as a research assistant (since December 1991 research assistant) at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Mainz. In 1990 he received his dissertation on finding principles in Aristotle . Methods and epistemological foundations doctorate.
After completing his habilitation in 1996, Pietsch represented the chair for Latin studies at the University of Marburg in the summer semester of 1997 and the chair for Latin studies at the University of Trier in the summer semester . In the winter semester 1998/1999 he was appointed as a university lecturer at the University of Mainz and at the same time took on the role of Woldemar Görler's professorship at the University of Saarbrücken as part of a teaching assignment. In the winter semester 2000/2001 he was Matthias Baltes ' professor for Greek studies at the University of Münster . In the summer semester of 2003 he accepted a chair for Greek studies at the same university. From 2009 to 2014 Pietsch was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Münster.
Pietsch's research focus is ancient philosophy, especially Platonism . He has been a member of the Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis since 2002 and vice-chairman since September 2003 . After the death of Matthias Baltes, he took over the continuation of his series Platonism in antiquity , the seventh volume of which he published in 2008.
Publications (selection)
- Aristotle found principles. Methods and epistemological foundations (= contributions to antiquity 22). Stuttgart 1992 [= dissertation Mainz 1990]
- The Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes. Investigations into the problem of the uniform conception of the content (= Hermes individual font 80). Stuttgart 1999 [= Habilitation thesis Mainz 1995]
- Platonism in Antiquity, ed. by H. Dörrie and M. Baltes, continued by Ch. Pietsch, Vol. VII / 1. Stuttgart 2008
- Platonism in Antiquity, ed. by H. Dörrie and M. Baltes, continued by Ch. Pietsch, Vol. VIII. Stuttgart 2016
- (Ed.): Ethics of ancient Platonism. The Platonic way to happiness in systematics, development and historical context. Files from the 12th meeting of the Karl and Gertrud Abel Foundation from October 15-18, 2009 in Münster (= Philosophy of Antiquity 32). Stuttgart 2013
- with Tobias Leuker (Ed.): Classic as norm - norm as classic: cultural change as a search for functional perfection. Aschendorff, Münster 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Pietsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Pietsch at the University of Münster
First chair: Hermann Ludwig Nadermann (1821–1853) | Ferdinand Deycks (1843–1867) | Peter Langen (1868–1897) | Peter Sonnenburg (1898–1928) | Franz Beckmann (1931–1963) | Hermann Tränkle (1963–1972) | Christian Gnilka (1972-2002) | Christine Schmitz (since 2002)
Second chair: Franz Winiewski (1838–1874) | Johann Matthias Stahl (1874–1906) | Wilhelm Kroll (1906–1913) | Richard Wünsch (1913–1915) | Hermann Schöne (1916–1935) | Walter Eberhardt (1937–1946) | Friedrich Mehmel (1947–1951) | Richard Harder (1952–1957) | Gerhard Müller (1958–1962) | Martin Sicherheitsl (1963–1982) | Wolfgang Huebner (1986-2004) | Alexander Arweiler (since 2004)
Third chair (until 1918 extraordinary): Franz Ignaz Schwerdt (1861–1868) | Adalbert Parmet (1869–1898) | Carl Hosius (1897–1906) | Ludwig Radermacher (1906–1909) | Karl Münscher (1909–1936) | Rudolf Güngerich (1951–1953) | Hermann Kleinknecht (1953–1960) | Heinrich Dörrie (1961–1980) | Hermann Wankel (1981–1991) | Adolf Köhnken (1992–2002) | Christian Pietsch (since 2003)
Fourth chair: Otto Hiltbrunner (1962–1979)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pietsch, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |