Gred Ibscher

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Margareta "Gred" Ibscher (born September 3, 1906 in Kirchheim in Swabia ; † January 5, 1996 in Hamburg ) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Gred Ibscher was the daughter of the Fuggerian domain director Carl Ibscher and his wife Maria Salesia Roth in Mindelheim . She grew up with her five sisters in Mindelheim. She first attended elementary school , then the humanistic reform high school in Munich . After graduating from high school in 1926, she began studying Classical Philology, History and Archeology at the Universities of Berlin , Leipzig and Munich . Her academic teachers included Eduard Spranger , Nicolai Hartmann , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Werner Jaeger and Wolfgang Schadewaldt . In 1931/32 she passed her state examination in Munich and was there in 1934 with Johannes Stroux with the dissertation The concept of the moral in the doctrine of duty of the Panaitios . A contribution to the knowledge of the Middle Stoic PhD . The career as a teacher, which began in 1932, was interrupted again in 1934 because Ibscher refused to join one of the Nazi professional associations. She then went to Rome to study , then to Madrid . When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she returned to Munich. There she was a research assistant for the editorial team of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in 1937/38 .

Ibscher left Germany in autumn 1939 and emigrated to Costa Rica . There she worked until 1947, first as a teacher, then from 1944 after additional training as a nurse and midwife . She could not accept an invitation to Harvard from Werner Jaeger as a research assistant and went to Peru in 1948 . In Lima she translated Martin Heidegger's book Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics into Spanish and took on teaching assignments in Greek , Latin and ancient philosophy . At the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, she received her doctorate in 1953 with an ethical dissertation in philosophy. Ibscher returned to Germany for two years from 1955 to 1957 and became a South America representative in Stuttgart . In 1964 she became a full professor of the history of Greek literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. During this time she published several smaller works on ancient drama and Johann Wolfgang Goethe . In 1973 Ibscher retired .

Her most productive phase of life began after her retirement. For ten years she devoted herself to the ethics in the works of Democritus and published a two-volume study in Spanish on Democritus Ethics and Education. It was the first appreciation of Democritus as an ethicist and no longer just an atomist . Ibscher identified with his ethics. In his Euthymia , she saw the focus not only on human respect for himself, but also for the cosmos . She recognized here the first ethics of duty in the history of philosophy. Like the Democritus study in Russian by Salomon Luria , Ibscher's study is waiting to be translated into one of the major scientific languages ​​and is therefore not received adequately. In 1985 she returned to Germany and, despite a protracted illness, worked on a bilingual edition of Democritus Ethical Fragments, which could only appear after her death.

In addition to her academic studies, Ibscher has made great contributions to the mutual mediation of German and South American culture. For this she has received several awards in Germany and Peru. In 1984 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class .

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  • with Carlos Daniel Valcárcel: El actual edificio de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - Publicaciones del cuarto centenario, Lima 1951
  • "La Electra" de Sófocles y La "Medea" de Eurípides , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - Departamento de Literatura, Lima 1966
  • with Inés Pozzi-Escot: Siete reflexiones en torno a la filología , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - Centro de Investigación Linguística Aplicada, Lima 1973
  • Demócrito y sus sentencias sobre ética y educación. Una introducción al pensamiento del atomista de Abdera , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos - Dirección Universitaria de Biblioteca y Publicaciones, Lima 1983/1984
  • Democritus: Fragments on Ethics. Greek / German , Reclam, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-15-009435-6 (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, Volume 9435)

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SURNAME Ibscher, Gred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibscher, Margareta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim in Swabia
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1996
Place of death Hamburg