Ingemar Düring

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ingemar Düring , completely Hans Ingemar Düring (born September 2, 1903 in Gothenburg , † December 23, 1984 ) was a Swedish classical philologist .

Life

After attending school and studying with Evald Liden, Vilhelm Lundström and Ernst Nachmanson in Gothenburg , which was interrupted by short stays in Uppsala , Lund , Copenhagen and Oxford , Düring became a lecturer in Greek language and literature in his hometown in 1930. 1932 he became Lector at the University in Vanersborg . In 1945 he was finally appointed Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Gothenburg . In 1955/56 he was a Research Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . In addition, Düring was chairman of the Swedish UNESCO commission, member of the commission for the Swedish archaeological institutes in Athens and Rome , member of the commission for a new translation of the New Testament and, since 1966, a corresponding member of the Heidelberg and since 1969 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Research priorities

The two main focuses of his research were ancient Greek music theory and the philosopher Aristotle .

As the first major work, Düring published an edition of the difficult text of the theory of harmony by Klaudios Ptolemaios from the 2nd century, including a selection from the scholias. This was followed by an edition of Porphyry's commentary on this work and a separate commentary on the work of Klaudios Ptolemaios, including a German translation. With a monograph on Herodicus , a pupil of Crates of Mallos two, and annotated editions of problem Aristotelian writings of Meteorologica and writing about the parts of the animals , and one under the name of Plato's pupil Chion of Heraclea traditional epistolary novel turned Duering Aristotle and its relationship to Plato too. He worked through the ancient biographical material on Aristotle in his book Aristotle in the Ancient Biographic Tradition . In 1961 he presented his reconstruction of Aristotle's Protrepticos, including a commentary (later also published in a German version), in 1966 his main work is Aristotle. Presentation and interpretation of his thinking appeared, which was followed by the article Aristotle in the Real Encyclopedia . In his obituary, Ernst Vogt calls the Aristotle book “the most important achievement in Aristotle research since Werner Jaeger's influential Aristotle book of 1923”.

In 1957, together with GEL Owen , he founded the Symposium Aristotelicum , a symposium of important Aristotle researchers that takes place every three years.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Ptolemy and Porphyry on music. Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, Göteborg 1934, ND Georg Olms Verlag, 1987, excerpts online
  • Herodicus the Cratetean. A study in antiplatonic tradition. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1941.
  • Aristotle in the Ancient Biographic Tradition . Almquist & Wiksell, Gothenburg 1957.
  • (Ed., With GEL Owen): Aristotle and Plato in the Mid-Fourth Century. Papers of the Symposium Aristotelicum held at Oxford in August, 1957. Almqvist & Wiksell, Göteborg, 1960. - Review by: GB Kerferd, in: The Classical Review, New Series 12, 1962, pp. 44–46, online ( JSTOR )
  • Aristotle. Presentation and interpretation of his thinking. C. Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1966; 2nd edition, unchanged. Reprint, Winter, Heidelberg 2005 ( Library of Classical Classical Studies , 2nd series; NF, Volume 114), ISBN 3-8253-5036-3 .
    • Spanish translation: Aristóteles. Exposición e interpretación de su pensamiento. Traducción y edición de Bernabé Navarro. Mexico 1987, 2nd edition 1990, excerpts online
    • Greek translation: Ο Αριστοτέλης. Παρουσίαση και ερμηνεία της σκέψης του. Μορφωτικό Ίδρθμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Athens 1991.
  • (Ed.): Natural philosophy with Aristotle and Theophrast. Negotiations of the 4th Aristotelicum Symposium. Organized in Gothenburg, August 1966. Lothar Stiehm, Heidelberg 1969.

Editions

  • (Ed.): The harmony theory of Klaudios Ptolemaios. Elander, Gothenburg, 1930; Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 1982.
  • (Ed.): Porphyrios, commentary on Ptolemy's theory of harmony . Elander, Gothenburg 1932; Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1978, ISBN 3-487-06667-X .
  • (Ed.): Aristotle's De Partibus animalium. Critical and literary commentaries. Wettergren & Kerber, Gothenburg 1943.
  • (Ed.): Aristotle's chemical Treatise: Meteorologica, book IV. With introduction and commentary. Wettergren & Kerber, Gothenburg 1944.
  • (Ed.): Chion of Heraclea. A Novel in Letters. Wettergren & Kerber, Gothenburg, 1951.
  • (Ed.): Aristotle's Protrepticus. An Attempt at Reconstruction. Elanders, Gothenburg, 1961.
  • (Ed.): The Protrepticos of Aristotle. Introduction, text, translation and commentary. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1969, excerpts online

items

  • Ptolemy's Vita Aristotelis Rediscovered . In: Robert B. Palmer and Robert Hamerton-Kelly: Philomathes. Studies and Essays in the Humanities in Memory of Philip Merlan. The Hague 1971, pp. 264-269.
  • Aristotle , in: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity . Suppl. 11, 1968, col. 161-335; also as a special edition: Alfred Druckermüller, Stuttgart 1968.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Düring, Ingemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Düring, Hans Ingemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1984