Eckart Schütrumpf

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Eckart Schütrumpf (born February 3, 1939 in Marburg ) is a German classical philologist who teaches as a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

Life

Eckart Schütrumpf studied classical philology and philosophy in Marburg and Munich from 1958 and received his doctorate in 1966 at the Philipps University of Marburg with the dissertation The meaning of the word ēthos in the poetics of Aristotle . Also in Marburg in 1976 he obtained his habilitation in classical philology with special consideration of ancient philosophy with the work The Analysis of the Polis by Aristotle . After working as a private lecturer at the University of Marburg, he taught at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town , South Africa from 1983 to 1987 . Since 1987 he has been a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Research priorities

Schütrumpf has published on topics such as political theory, ethics, rhetoric and poetics, namely with Aristotle , Xenophon , Plato , Cicero and other authors. He is the editor of text fragments of the Heracles pontic . Particularly noteworthy is his work as translator and commentator on the most extensively commented version of Aristotle's politics (published in 4 volumes from 1991 to 2005, altogether more than 2,300 pages).

Fonts

  • The analysis of the polis by Aristotle , Grüner, Amsterdam 1980, ISBN 90-6032-118-9
  • Xenophon: Proposals for raising funds or on state income , incorporated, ed. u. trans. by Eckart Schütrumpf, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-08346-6
  • Aristotle: politics . Volume 9 of the works in German translation , founded by Ernst Grumach, translated and explained by Eckart Schütrumpf, Akademie Verlag, Berlin from 1991. Book I (Volume 9.1, 1991), Book II – III (Volume 9.2, 1991), Book IV– VI (Volume 9.3, together with Hans-Joachim Gehrke, 1996), Book VII – VIII (Volume 9.4, 2005).
  • Practice and Lexis: selected writings on the philosophy of action and speech in classical antiquity , Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09147-3

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