Dag Nikolaus Hasse

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse (born March 3, 1969 in Bremen ) is a German Arabist , philosophy historian , Graeco-Arabist and Middle Latin philologist .

Life

After studying on a scholarship from the studienstiftung at the University of Göttingen , which he in 1993 with a MA in Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the modern era, philosophy and Arabic graduated, he was for a year at the Yale University finally in 1997 at the Warburg Institute of University of London PhD. After a university assistantship at the University of Würzburg , he received his habilitation in 2005 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau for the subjects of Philosophy and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. From 2005 to 2010 he was Lichtenberg Professor of the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Würzburg; since 2010 he has held the chair III for philosophy (history of philosophy) there.

Awards

In 2016 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG. In 2017 he was made a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2018 he received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2018 in Abu Dhabi (UAE) in the category 'Arabic Culture in Other Languages' for his book Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (Harvard University Press).

Research priorities

Hasse works on the history of Arab philosophy and science, the Arab influence in Europe, the Greek-Arabic philosophy ( Aristotle ) in the Latin Middle Ages, and the European history of philosophy and science in the 12th to 16th centuries. Century and to Middle Latin literature .

He is editor of the online dictionary Arabic and Latin Glossary ( ALGloss ), which has been published successively since 2009. On the one hand, the glossary reveals the influence of the Arabic-Latin translations of the 10th to 14th centuries on the scientific languages ​​of Europe and, on the other hand, serves as an Arabic-English lexicon of the Arabic language of philosophy and science.

In addition, he heads the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, which opens up the astronomical and astrological sources of the Ptolemaic worldview in the Orient and Occident up to Copernicus.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Avicenna 's "De anima" in the Latin West. The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul, 1160-1300 (= Warburg Institute Studies and Texts. Vol. 1). Warburg Institute, London / Turin 2000.
  • Spontaneous generation and worldview. Aristotle - Ibn Ruschd - Pasteur . [Inaugural lecture at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg on November 3, 2006]. Olms, Hildesheim 2006.
  • Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West. ( Online 2008 )
  • Latin Averroes Translations of the First Half of the Thirteenth Century. [Plenary session paper read on September 21, 2007 in Palermo at the XII International Congress of Medieval Philosophy]. Olms, Hildesheim 2010 ( earlier version ).
  • Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA / London, 2016.

As editor:

  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Observationes. The Latin scripts. Wallstein, Göttingen 1997.
  • Abelard's "Historia calamitatum". Text - translation - literary model analyzes. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002.
  • with Amos Bertolacci : The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 80.
  2. ^ From Arabic studies to neurology: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 20 new members. Bavarian Academy of Sciences , March 22, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ Sheikh Zayed Book Award Twelfth Session Winners Announced . April 4, 2018 ( zayedaward.ae [accessed May 29, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Hate, Dag Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist, historian of philosophy, Graeco-Arabist and Middle Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen