David Theunis Runia

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David Theunis Runia , also Douwe Runia (born December 14, 1951 in Noordoostpolder , Netherlands ) is a Dutch-Australian classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Runia was born on December 14, 1951 in the Netherlands, but at the age of four he emigrated to Australia with his father Klaas Runia (1926-2006) , who held a chair for systematic theology there from 1956 until his return to the Netherlands in 1971 at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong . After attending Newtown State School and Geelong College, he studied Classics at the University of Melbourne from 1969 to 1976 ; from 1969 to 1971 he was a resident student at Queen's College. In 1977 he obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and in 1977 an MA there, at the same time a diploma in educational science. He then returned to the Netherlands, where he continued his studies and received his doctorate in 1983 with a dissertation on "Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato" at the Free University of Amsterdam .

From 1985 to 1990 he was Huygens Senior Research Fellow of the Nederlandse Organizatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek , as such from 1986 to 1987 he was also a Fellow of the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, 1987 Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University , Canberra . From 1990 to 1992 he was senior lecturer in ancient and patristic philosophy at the Free University of Amsterdam, and in 1990 he was also a Humboldt fellow at the University of Münster , Germany.

In 1991 he was appointed C. J. De Vogel Professor Extraordinary Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the University of Utrecht , the Netherlands, a position he held until 1999. From 1995 to 1999 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy there. From 1992 to 2002 he was also professor for ancient and medieval philosophy at the University of Leiden .

In 2002 he returned to Australia, where he was promoted to a Masters degree from Queen's College, University of Melbourne. He retired there in 2016. Since then he has been a Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. In 2017 he was appointed director of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University .

Awards

  • 1999: Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • 2003: D. Litt., University of Melbourne
  • 2003: Centenary Medal, Australia
  • 2004: Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
  • 2007: Scaliger Fellow at the University Library in Leiden

Research priorities

Runia's main research interests are Platonism in its relationship to Judeo-Christian thought, especially the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria , as well as the doxography of early Greek thought, especially Aetios .

Fonts (selection)

  • Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato. Dissertation Free University of Amsterdam 1986.
  • with R. Radice: Philo of Alexandria. An Annotated Bibliography 1937–86. 1988.
  • Exegesis and Scripture. Studies on Philo of Alexandria . 1990.
  • Philo in Early Christian Literature. A survey . 1993.
  • Philo and the Church Fathers. A Collection of Papers . 1995.
  • with Jaap Mansfeld : Aëtiana. The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, Volume I: The Sources . 1997.
  • Philo of Alexandria. An Annotated Bibliography 1987-96. 2000.
  • Philo of Alexandria, On the Creation of the Cosmos according to Moses. Translation and Commentary . 2001.
  • with Michael Share: Proclus Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Volume II Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation . 2008.
  • with Jaap Mansfeld: Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, Volume II: The Compendium . 2009.
  • with Jaap Mansfeld: Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, Volume III: Studies in the Doxographical Traditions of Ancient Philosophy . 2009.
  • (Ed., With Jaap Mansfeld): Aëtiana IV: Papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography . 2018.
  • (Ed.): The Studia Philonica Annual , 10 volumes 1989-1998; with Gregory E. Sterling as editor, 20 volumes 1999-2018 (except volume 28, the Festschrift in his honor)

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personal data
SURNAME Runia, David Theunis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Runia, Douwe (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Dutch classical philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Noordoostpolder , Netherlands