Francesca Yardenit Albertini

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Francesca Yardenit Albertini (born May 20, 1974 in Rome , Italy ; † March 27, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German scholar of religion .

Life

Francesca Yardenit Albertini studied Jewish philosophy as well as history , art history , oriental studies ( Egyptology and Jewish studies ) at the La Sapienza University in Rome from 1993 to 1997 . From 1997 to 2001 she studied Protestant theology at the Facoltà Valdese di Teologia di Roma, the Waldensian theological faculty . She had a teaching position for Jewish philosophy at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, a teaching position for philosophy and Jewish culture at the University of Freiburg im Uechtland, and she was the deputy of the Martin Buber endowed professorship for Jewish religious philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , holds a teaching position at the Philosophical Seminar I at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau .

In 2001 she was at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the Jewish neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen to Dr. phil. PhD and was then a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 2005 she was a substitute professor for Jewish philosophy at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg. 2007 habilitation they are at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Frankfurt with Scripture "The influences of early medieval Islamic philosophy in the design of the Messiah by Moses Maimonides". Since 2007 she has been a full professor for religious studies at the University of Potsdam as the successor to Karl Erich Grözinger .

Albertini had national and international grants and was a participant and co-organizer of important symposiums. In addition to her native Italian, she also spoke English, German, French and modern Hebrew. She had a basic knowledge of (modern) Arabic and Spanish and read the literary languages ​​Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Koranic Arabic, Sanskrit and Aramaic. Francesca Albertini was married to Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf . She lived in Freiburg, later in Berlin. There she died on March 27, 2011 after a long and serious illness.

In 2013 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf published a book about his wife, which is also based on documents from her estate and contains quotes from her diary and letters.

Publications

  • The dialogic principle as the basis of the Sinaitic revelation: Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber. In conversation, booklets of the Martin-Buber-Gesellschaft 2/2001
  • Understanding being with Hermann Cohen. Dissertation. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003
  • Maimonides' conception of the Messiah and early medieval Islamic philosophy. Habilitation thesis. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009
  • Francesca Yardenit Albertini, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (ed.): The vision of another Judaism. Selected Writings. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-056-8 .

literature

  • Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf: Germany or Jerusalem. The short life of Francesca Albertini. Klampen, Springe 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Philosophy of Orgasm. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019.
  2. ^ "Interview with Prof. Albertini". Muslim market. Retrieved January 27, 2006 .
  3. ↑ Obituary. Archived from the original on August 28, 2011 ; Retrieved May 25, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Albertini, Francesca Yardenit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albertini, Francesca Y.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2011
Place of death Berlin