Christoph Riedweg

Christoph Riedweg (born December 26, 1957 in Zug ) is a Swiss classical philologist (Graecist) and former director of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma .

After completing his Matura at Einsiedeln High School , he studied classical philology and musicology in Zurich from 1977 to 1983, and in 1984 he graduated as a teacher. In 1985 he received his doctorate in Zurich. From 1983 to 1988 and from 1991 to 1993 Riedweg worked as an assistant at the Classical Philological Seminar in Zurich . In between he was a scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation in Oxford , Leuven / Louvain-la-Neuve and Munich . In 1993 he was appointed full professor for Classical Philology ( Greek Studies ) at the University of Mainz and in 1996 he was appointed Full Professor of Classical Philology / Greek Studies at the University of Zurich . From April 2005 to January 2013 he was director of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma .

He is co-editor of numerous magazines and series, e.g. B. Hypomnemata (since 1997).

Christoph Riedweg deals with topics from Greek poetry, philosophy and the history of religion (including Orphics and Pythagoreanism ), taking into account their reception in Jewish-Hellenistic and early Christian literature and beyond.

Fonts (selection)

• Mystery terminology in Plato, Philo and Clement of Alexandria (Studies on Ancient Literature and History 26), Berlin-New York 1987
• Jewish-Hellenistic imitation of an Orphic Hieros Logos - observations on OF 245 and 247 (so-called Testament of Orpheus) (Classica Monacensia 7), Tübingen 1993
• Ps.-Justin ( Markell von Ankyra ?), Ad Graecos de vera religione (previously “Cohortatio ad Graecos”). Introduction and commentary. (Swiss Contributions to Classical Studies 25/1 and 25/2), 2 volumes, Basel 1994
• Pythagoras: life - teaching - aftermath. An introduction, Munich 2007 (2nd corr. Edition, first edition 2002)
  • English translation: Pythagoras. His Life, Teaching, and Influence , Ithaca 2008) (revised paperback edition of the first edition 2005, which contained many errors for which the publisher was responsible, see [1] (PDF file; 204 kB);
  • Italian translation: Pitagora. Vita, dottrina e influenza. Presentazione, traduzione e apparati a cura di Maria Luisa Gatti, Milano 2007.
• Discorsi d'attualità. Dal “postmoderno” ai nuovi orizzonti della cultura (Biblioteca di testi e studi 913), Roma: Carocci editore, 2013. 264 pp.
  • After postmodernism. Current debates on art, philosophy and society (Schwabe reflexe 34), Basel: Schwabe, 2014. 313 pp. (= German version of "Discorsi d'attualità ..." [2013])
  • Discours d'actualité. You “postmoderne” aux nouveaux horizons de la culture (Varia 112), Genève: Librairie Droz, 2014. 279 pp. (= French version of “Discorsi d'attualità ...” [2013])
• Kyrill von Alexandrien, Werke Vol. I: »Against Julian«, Part 1: Book 1–5.  Edited by Christoph Riedweg (in collaboration with Wolfram Kinzig , Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich , Stefan Rebenich , Adolf Martin Ritter and Markus Vinzent, and with the scientific assistance of Thomas Brüggemann, Michael Chronz, Nicola Schmid-Dümmler, Regina Füchslin, Elena Gritti, Ruth E. . Harder, Kaspar Howald, Christian Oesterheld, Andreas Schatzmann and Camille Semenzato). With a general introduction by Christoph Riedweg and Wolfram Kinzig (The Greek Christian Writers of the First Centuries NF 20), Berlin / Boston 2016. 393 p. (EBook: https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/480543?rskey = XSF6t2 & rskey = XSF6t2 )
• Ch. Riedweg / Ch. Horn / D. Wyrwa (eds.): The philosophy of antiquity 5: Philosophy of the imperial era and late antiquity (outline of the history of philosophy, founded by Friedrich Ueberweg, completely revised edition), Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2018. XXIX and 2599 pp. (In three volumes; ebooks: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uzh/detail.action?docID=5602270 ; https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uzh/ detail.action? docID = 5602271 ; https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uzh/detail.action?docID=5602272 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Riedweg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christoph Riedweg, Professor of Classical Philology / Greek Studies at the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at UZH
• Annual reports of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma 2004 / 5–2012 [2]