Christian Wildberg

Christian Wildberg (* 1957 ) is a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy and professor emeritus at Princeton University .

After completing a master's degree in Protestant theology at the University of Marburg , Wildberg continued his studies at Cambridge University in Classics, where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate. This was followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Caius College , Cambridge, and a lecturership at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1990 onwards he was an assistant at the Free University of Berlin before he was offered a professorship for Classics at Princeton University in 1996. Here he taught without interruption until his retirement on July 1, 2018. He was also Academic Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies from 2010 to 2017. He now works at the University of Pittsburgh .

Wildberg's main research areas were and are Johannes Philoponos and his anti-Aristotelian treatise on the eternity of the world and the importance of the gods in the tragedies of Euripides ; the mystique , Aristotle ' cosmology and Dionysos cult ; the so-called pre - Socratics ; ancient concepts of evil; and the Corpus Hermeticum and its reception in late antiquity .

Wildberg is also co-editor of the monograph series Philosophia Antiqua (Brill, Leiden) and Studies and Texts on Antiquity and Christianity (STAC, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen) and the journal Apeiron , an international publication organ in the field of the history of science and philosophy.

Fonts (selection)

Editions and Monographs

• Philoponus against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. Duckworth, London 1987.
• John Philoponus' Criticism of Aristotle's Theory of Aether (= Peripatoi Volume 16). DeGruyter, Berlin, New York 1988.
• Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World , in: Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void , with: Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World , trans. with David J. Furley . Duckworth, London 1991, pp. 95-135, ISBN 0-7156-2250-1
• Hyperesia and epiphany. An attempt on the meaning of the gods in the dramas of Euripides (= Zetemata 109). CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2002.

(Co) editor

• (Ed. With Martin Cropp, Kevin Lee , David Sansone, Eric Csapo and Donald Mastronarde ): Euripides and Tragic Theater in the Late Fifth Century (= Illinois Classical Studies 24/25). Champaign, Il., 2000.
• (Ed. With Daniel Zelinski): Religion, Mysticism, and Ethics: A Cross-traditional Anthology (= Archive for Religious History 9). Saur Verlag, Munich 2007.
• (Ed. With Alan Bowen): New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo. A collection of interpretative articles on Aristotle's cosmological treatise (= Philosophia Antiqua 117), Brill, Leiden 2009.
• (Ed. With Michael Wachtel): Dionysus and the pre-Dionysian cults. A posthumous edition of Vyacheslav Ivanov's manuscript on Dionysiac Religion. Mohr - Siebeck, Tübingen 2012.

Web links

• Notification of retirement
• Personal page in the Classics Department, University of Pittsburgh