Frank Regen

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Frank Regen

Frank Regen (born February 5, 1939 in Herford , † February 4, 2010 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Regen studied Greek , Latin and Italian philology at the University of Göttingen from 1959 , and from 1962–63 at the University of Florence , where he studied papyrology at the Istituto Papirologico "Girolamo Vitelli" . In 1969 he received his doctorate from Karl Deichgräber in Göttingen with his dissertation on the Apology of Apuleius De magia and on De mundo , and took up work as an academic adviser and lecturer at the Chair of Classical Philology II at the TU Berlin . From 1972 to 2004 he taught and researched as an academic senior counselor at the Department of Classical Philology in Göttingen. In eight two-week courses (1997-2003) he also dealt with topics of ancient philosophy at the University of Bologna . The focus of his research was the philosophy of later antiquity, in particular the philosophical writings of Apuleius, their manuscripts and tradition history. Due to the realignment of the publishing strategy after the reunification of the two houses of the Teubner Verlag in 1991, he was no longer able to complete the planned critical new edition within the Bibliotheca Teubneriana of the BG Teubner Verlag . He gave a review of his Florentine student days in an autobiographical novel that he published on the Internet in 2009.

Fonts

  • Apuleius philosophus Platonicus. Investigations on the apology De magia and on De mundo . De Gruyter, Berlin New York 1971. ISBN 3-11-003678-9
  • To set up Properz 3, 20 . In: Hermes 103, 1975, 469-479.
  • Revised by: Apulée, Opuscules philosophiques (Du dieu de Socrate, Platon et sa doctrine, du monde) et fragments. Texts établi, traduit et commenté par Jean Beaujeu. Paris 1973 . In: Göttinger Gelehrter Anzeiger 229, 1977, 186–227.
  • On Augustine's account of Platonism at the beginning of Book 8 of the Civitas Dei . In: Horst Dieter Blume (ed.): Platonism and Christianity. Festschrift for Heinrich Dörrie (Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity Supplementary Volume 10). Aschendorff, Münster 1983, pp. 208-227. ISBN 3-402-08506-2
  • The Codex Laurentianus pluteus 51.9. A previously neglected text witness of the Apulian script "De deo Socratis" (News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class 1985, 5). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985.
  • Formless forms. Plotin's philosophy as an attempt to solve the regress problem of Platonic Parmenides (Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologische-Historische Klasse 1988, 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.
  • with Raymond Klibansky : The manuscripts of the philosophical works of Apuleius. A contribution to the history of transmission (treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 3, 204). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993. ISBN 3-525-82591-9
  • Il De deo Socratis di Apuleio . In: Maia NS 51, 1999, pp. 429-456 and 52, 2000, pp. 41-66.
  • Praescientia. Advance knowledge of God and freedom of will of man in the Consolatio Philosophiae des Boethius (Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies, Supplement 8: Philology). Duehrkohp & Radicke, Göttingen 2001. ISBN 3-89744-163-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Raymond Klibansky, Frank Regen, The handwriting of the philosophical works of Apuleius. A contribution to the history of transmission (treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class, Volume 3, 204). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, SS 5, note 2; Claudio Moreschini: Apulei Platonici Madaurensis opera quae supersunt, vol. III: De Philosophia libri (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). BG Teubner, Stuttgart Leipzig 1991, which seems to have escaped the Regens academy from 1985 on the historical significance of the Florence manuscript, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, plut 51, 9, which he does not take into account.

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personal data
SURNAME Rain, frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2010
Place of death Goettingen