Christoph Eucken

Christoph Eucken (born April 6, 1939 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German-Swiss classical philologist .

Life

Christoph Eucken, the son of the economist Walter Eucken and the cultural philosopher Edith Eucken-Erdsiek , studied from 1957 to 1968 at the universities of Freiburg , Vienna , Hamburg , Zurich and Munich, first economics, later history, German, Latin and Greek for teaching. In the spring of 1968 he received his doctorate in Ancient History with the dissertation Problems of the Prehistory of the Second Punic War . In autumn 1968 he passed the first state examination in Latin and Greek, and in 1969 the assessor examination . From 1969 to 1970 he was a teacher at the Hellenstein High School in Heidenheim an der Brenz . From 1970 to 1973 he was an assistant at the Department of Ancient History in Freiburg.

On April 1, 1974, he went to the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Bern as an assistant , where he became senior assistant in 1979. In the 1980 summer semester he achieved his habilitation with the Isokrates script . His positions in dealing with contemporary thinkers . From 1981 to 1982 he stayed at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University in Washington, DC. In 1984 he was promoted to senior assistant lecturer in Bern, and in 1993 to part-time associate professor.

Eucken deals with Greek literature, especially with the Attic writers Plato , Isocrates , Antiphon and Thucydides .

Publications (selection)

• Problems of the prehistory of the Second Punic War . Dissertation Freiburg 1968.
• Isocrates. His positions in dealing with contemporary philosophers . de Gruyter, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-11-008646-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Eucken in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Eucken at the University of Bern ( Memento from March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )