Eckhard Keßler

Eckhard Keßler (born May 22, 1938 in Habelschwerdt , Lower Silesia Province ; † June 11, 2018 ) was a German historian of philosophy .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1958 at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium, Rottweil , Keßler studied classical philology , philosophy and German studies at the University of Tübingen from the summer semester 1958 to the winter semester 1958/59 and continued his studies from the summer semester 1959 to the summer semester 1963 at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich continued. In 1963 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in Bavaria (Latin, Greek, German) in Munich and received his doctorate in 1967 in philosophy, Latin and Greek at the University of Munich. In 1975 he received his habilitation in philosophy and intellectual history of humanism, also at the University of Munich.

From the summer semester 1964 to the summer semester 1975 he was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Intellectual History of Humanism at the University of Munich, from the summer semester 1965 to the winter semester 1978/79 he was a research assistant at the same institute. After completing his habilitation, he was a private lecturer at the University of Munich from SS 1975 to SS 1980. On October 1, 1980, he was appointed professor of philosophy and intellectual history of humanism at the University of Munich, and from 1993 he was professor of intellectual history and philosophy of the Renaissance there. From 1979 to 1982 he was also director of the German Study Center in Venice .

His main research interests were natural philosophy and the discussion of methods in the 16th century, the philosophy of humanism as well as Aristotle and the tradition of Aristotelianism .

Fonts (selection)

• The philosophy of the renaissance. The 15th century . Beck, Munich 2008.
• (Ed., With Heinrich C. Kuhn): Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. Politics, science, humanistic culture from the late Middle Ages to our time. 2 Bde., Fink, Munich 2003 (= Humanist Library Series I, Treatises Vol. 54).
• (Eds., With Charles H. Lohr and W. Sparn): Aristotelianism and Renaissance. In memoriam Charles B. Schmitt (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Vol. 40), Wiesbaden 1988.
• (Eds., With Charles B. Schmitt and Quentin Skinner ): Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge 1988.
• Lorenzo Valla : About free will / De libero arbitrio. Ed., Trans. and initiated (= Humanist Library II, 16). Munich 1987.
• (Ed.) Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola : About the idea / De imaginatione (= Humanist Library, II, 13). Munich 1984, 2nd edition 1986.
•  (Eds., With P. Tuynman and G. Kuiper): Acta Conventus Neolatini Amstelodamensis (= Humanist Library, I, 26). Munich 1979.
• Petrarch and history. Historiography, rhetoric, philosophy in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age (= Humanist Library I, 25). Munich 1978, 2nd edition 2004.
• The problem of early humanism. Its philosophical significance in Coluccio Salutati (= humanistic library, I, 1). Munich 1968.

literature

• Paul Richard Blum (eds., In conjunction with Constance Blackwell and Charles Lohr): Sapientiam amemus. Humanism and Aristotelianism in the Renaissance. Festschrift for Eckhard Keßler on his 60th birthday. Fink, Munich 1999, digitized version

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Seminar for Spiritual History and Philosophy of the Renaissance, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Department of Intellectual History and Philosophy of the Renaissance
• Publications on the website of the Department of Spiritual History and Philosophy of the Renaissance
• Publications ( Regesta imperii )