Martin Thurner

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Martin Thurner

Martin Thurner (born June 12, 1970 in Bozen ) is a German philosopher, Medievalist and Roman Catholic theologian and has been the academic director of the Martin Grabmann Research Institute at Munich University since 2014 . He has been an honorary doctorate from Ankara University since 2018.

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Award of an honorary doctorate ( Doctor honoris causa ) from Ankara University to Martin Thurner by Rector Erkan İbiş on September 27, 2018

Thurner was born as the son of Adolf Thurner and his wife Notburga, geb. Gafriller, born in South Tyrol . From 1989 to 1994 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich. He was supported with a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to promote talented students . After the graduation to the licentiate in theology with a focus on Christian Philosophy 1994 he research assistant at the Martin-grave man Research Institute for the study of medieval philosophy and theology was the University of Munich. In 1997 there was a doctorate in theology with a thesis on the Greek thinker Heraclitus . For this work he was awarded the PhD award of the University of Munich in 1998.

Thurner qualified as a professor in Munich in 2000 for the subject Christian philosophy with a study on Nikolaus von Kues . From 2002 he took on the duties of the professor for Christian philosophy in teaching and study supervision. In 2007 he was appointed professor. From 2011 to 2015 Thurner was the main editor of the Munich Theological Journal . In 2014 he was appointed Academic Director at the Martin Grabmann Research Institute at Munich University. Thurner worked until 2012 a. a. as co-editor and secretary of the yearbook “ Aufgang. Yearbook for Thought - Poetry - Music “works closely with the religious priest, theologian, philosopher and poet José Sánchez de Murillo .

Since 2014, Thurner has been chairman of the board of trustees of the "Eugen Biser Foundation" and in this capacity, among other things, he carries out projects on the dialogue with Islam: On September 27, 2018, the University of Ankara granted him an honorary doctorate from its rector Erkan İbiş ( Doctor honoris causa ) in philosophy.

The main concern of the various studies is the rediscovery and renewal of philosophical forms of thought that are still determined by the origin of reason from experience. Therefore, the Greek pre-Socratics and the history of (medieval) mysticism are his main focus.

Works (selection)

  • The unity of the person. Contributions to the anthropology of the Middle Ages ( Richard Heinzmann on his 65th birthday). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1998.
  • Nicolaus Cusanus between Germany and Italy . Contributions to a German-Italian symposium in the Villa Vigoni from March 28 to April 1, 2001 (= publications of the Grabmann Institute 48). Berlin 2002.
  • Medieval thinking. Debates, ideas and design in context . Edited by Christian Schäfer and Martin Thurner. Darmstadt 2007.
  • The poetic magic of a city / El embrujo poético de una ciudad: Luise Rinser and / y Ronda. German-Spanish / Alemán-Español. Edited with José Sánchez de Murillo and Christoph Rinser . Munich 2007.
  • Passiones animae. The “passions of the soul” in medieval theology and philosophy (= publications of the Grabmann Institute 52). Edited by Christian Schäfer and Martin Thurner. Berlin 2009. 215 pp. - Extended second edition: Berlin 2013.
  • De Hiroshima on Wall Street. Mística en tiempo de crisis (= Mística y Místicos, Colleción Ed. Monte Carmelo; Biblia y Mística, Colleción CITeS 2), Dirección: José Sánchze de Murillo y Martin Thurner, Ávila / Burgos 2010.
  • The center of Christianity. Introduction to Eugen Biser's theology . Edited with Richard Heinzmann, Darmstadt 2010. 158 pp.
  • Lexicon of Dialogue. Basic concepts from Christianity and Islam . On behalf of the Eugen Biser Foundation ed. by Richard Heinzmann in collaboration with Peter Antes, Martin Thurner, Mualla Selçuk and Halis Albayrak. Freiburg u. a. 2013. 851 pages in 2 volumes. Turkish edition: İslamiyet-Hristiyanlık Kavramları Sözlüğü. Editors: M. Selçuk, H. Albayrak, P. Antes, R. Heinzmann, M. Thurner, Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınevi 2013. 935 p. In 2 volumes.
  • The Benedictine monastery reform in the 15th century (= publications of the Grabmann Institute 56), ed. by Franz Xaver Bischof and Martin Thurner. Berlin 2013.
  • Freedom. Foundation and development in philosophy, religion and culture (= Eugen Biser Lectures 3). Göttingen 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life dates and career based on information from the University of Munich
  2. ↑ [1] [2]
  3. ↑ Martin Thurner: The origin of thinking in Heraklit [Diss. Munich 1997/98]. (= Origins of Philosophizing. Vol. 1), Stuttgart-Berlin-Cologne 2001. 330 pp.
  4. ↑ Martin Thurner: God as the revealed secret according to Nikolaus von Kues [Habil. Munich 2000]. (= Publications of the Grabmann Institute vol. 45), Berlin 2001. 500 pp.
  5. ↑ https://www.kaththeol.uni-muenchen.de/habenliste/apl_und_pd/thurner/publikationen_martinthurner.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Thurner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano