Hans Benedikt Gottschalk

Hans Benedikt Gottschalk (* 1930 ; † April 4, 2004 ) was a German-British classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Gottschalk came to England from Germany, where he was born, in 1938. After attending school, he studied classical philology at the Peterhouse of the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1952. In 1957, he was with a work of criticism and development of the philosophy of Aristotle in the early Peripatos for Ph.D. PhD . Various grants made it possible for him to study for a doctorate. After a brief stint at the Uppington School, Gottschalk was made assistant lecturer in January 1958, and lecturer the following year. In 1981 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and in 1982 to Reader in classics. Gottschalk retired in September 1996. Gottschalk was a Council member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and a member of the Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy . He was honored with a conference on Herakleides Ponticos in 2003 .

Research priorities

Gottschalk researched mainly in the field of post-Aristotelian philosophy, especially the Peripatos. Among the philosophers to whom he devoted himself were Theophrast , his successor in the direction of Lykeion , Straton von Lampsakos , and Herakleides Pontikos.

Fonts (selection)

• Strato of Lampsacus. Some texts edited with a commentary. WS Maney and Son, Leeds 1965 (review by François Lasserre , in: L'antiquité classique 35, 1966, pp. 634-635 (online) ).
• Lucretius on the "Water of the Sun". In: Philologus 110, 1966, pp. 311-315.
• Notes on the Wills of the Peripatetic Scholarchs. In: Hermes 100, 1972, 314-342.
• Heraclides of Pontus. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-19-814021-5 .
• Aristotelian Philosophy in the Roman World. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World , Volume II.36.2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, pp. 1079–1174.
• The Earliest Aristotelian Commentators. In: Richard Sorabji (Ed.): Aristotle Transformed. The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence. 2nd, revised edition. Bloomsbury, London 2016, pp. 61–88
• Continuity and Change in Aristotelianism. In: Richard Sorabji (Ed.): Aristotle and After (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement volume 68). London 1997, pp. 109-115.
• Theophrastus and the Peripatos. In: Johannes Max van Ophuijsen, Marlein Van Raalte (ed.): Theophrastus. Reappraising the Sources. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick / London 1998, pp. 281-298 ( excerpts online ).
• Eudemus and the Peripatos. In: István Bodnár, William Wall Fortenbaugh (ed.): Eudemus of Rhodes. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick / London 2002, pp. 25-37 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Benedikt Gottschalk in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• University of Leeds, The University Secretary: Obituary: Dr Hans B Gottschalk , April 8, 2004 ( online ) = J. Roger Gair: Hans Benedikt Gottschalk: In memoriam. In: William W. Fortenbaugh, Elizabeth Pender (Eds.): Heracleides of Pontus: Discussion. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick / London 2009, pp. XIV – XVI ( online ) (the second with photography).