Jürgen Wiesner
Jürgen Wiesner (born December 31, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German classical philologist .
Life
Jürgen Wiesner attended the Canisius College in Berlin from 1949 to 1958 and then studied Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin . After the first state examination, he became a member of the Aristotle archive headed by Paul Moraux and undertook library trips to examine Greek Aristotle manuscripts in Cambridge, Dresden, Dublin, Florence, Genoa, Leipzig, London, Milan, Naples, Oxford, Paris, Parma, Ravenna and Rome. He obtained his doctorate in 1973 with the dissertation Pseudo-Aristotle MXG: The historical value of the Xenophanesreferats (Amsterdam 1974), which was supervised by Paul Moraux and Hans Schwabl . In addition to his work for the Aristotle archive, he worked as a university councilor at the Free University of Berlin from 1974. In 1982 and 1983 he stayed twice for research at the Fondation Hardt in Vandœuvres .
In 1986 Wiesner moved from the Aristotle Archive as a lecturer to the Institute for Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his habilitation in 1994. After receiving a grant from the German Research Foundation in the 1996 summer semester, he was appointed to the Academic Council in 1997. Starting this year, he is also co-editor of the publication series peripatoi in Walter de Gruyter .
At the center of his research were the writings of the philosopher Aristotle and his school. He laid down his life's work in the two-volume monograph Aristotle - Work and Effect (1985–1987).
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2001, Volume 3, p. 3545.
Web links
- Jürgen Wiesner at the FU Berlin
- Literature by and about Jürgen Wiesner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesner, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |