Johnny Christensen

Johnny Carl Christensen (born March 5, 1930 in Frederiksberg ) is a Danish classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Christensen visited the metropolitan cities in Copenhagen from 1948 , then for a year the Krogerup Højskole in Humlebæk . From 1951 to 1953 he studied at the University of California ; there he also taught philosophy last year. In 1955 he was a candidate for a master's degree in classical philology and English at the University of Copenhagen , where he also taught from 1956. In 1960 he became a university adjunct, in 1962 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on The Unity of Stoic Philosophy and was professor in classical philology from 1962 to 1996. From 1964 to 1975 he was a member of the management of the Volkshochschule (Folkeuniversitetet) in Copenhagen, from 1964 to 1969 its chairman. From 1965 to 1970 he was deputy chairman of the Philological-Historical Society (Filologisk-historisk samfund). From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the consistory, from 1971 to 1972 prorector, from 1977 head of the Institute for Classical Philology. In 1968 he became a member of the Vetenskapssocieteten in Lund and in 1979 of Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab .

Christensen is part of the Danish tradition of classical philology founded by Johan Nicolai Madvig . He taught and researched in numerous areas of classical antiquity , but was particularly prominent through his monograph on the unity of the stoic teaching structure, which was recently reissued.

His students include Sten Ebbesen and Troels Engberg-Pedersen .

Fonts (selection)

• Aristotle . Munksgaards Forlag, Copenhagen 1961; second edition: Hans Reitzel Forlag, Copenhagen 1997.
• An Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy. Munksgaards Forlag, 1962; Reprint Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2012. - Review by Phillip De Lacy , in: Gnomon 35, 1963, 308-310; DW Hamlyn, in: Classical Review 13, 1963, 231; AA Long, Hellenistic Philosophy. Second edition, 1986, 254; Andrew Shortridge, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02/34/2014
• Equality of Man and Stoic Social Thought. In: I. Kajanto (Ed.), Equality and Inequality of Man in Ancient Thought. Papers Read at the Colloquium in Connection with the Assemblée Générale of the Fédération Internationale des Études Classiques Held in Helsinki in August 1982. Helsinki 1984.

literature

• MS Christensen, S. Ebbesen, MH Hansen, J. Mejer, TH Nielsen, CG Tortzen (eds.): Hvad tales her om? 46 artikler om græsk-romersk culture. Festskrift to Johnny Christensen i anledning af hans afsked som professor from Københavns University. Tusculanum Museum: København 1996.

Web links

• Dansk biografisk leksikon : Johnny Christensen
• Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab: Johnny Christensen (with photography)