Matthias Lutz-Bachmann

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Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (* 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher and professor.

He is the holder of a professorship for philosophy with special emphasis on the philosophy of the Middle Ages, practical philosophy and the philosophy of religion at the Institute for Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University in St. Louis (Graduate Faculty). From 2007 to 2009 Lutz-Bachmann was Dean of the Philosophy and History Department at the University of Frankfurt. From March 2009 to March 2015, he was also Vice President of the Foundation University .

Life

Lutz-Bachmann began his academic training by studying philosophy, Catholic theology, political science and history at the universities of Frankfurt and Münster as well as at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen . In 1981 he received his doctorate with the thesis History and Subject. On the concept of the philosophy of history in Kant and Marx in Alfred Schmidt at the Goethe University Frankfurt for Dr. phil. and 1984 with the dissertation The Relationship between Philosophy and Theology in the Opuscula Sacra of the AMS Boethius to the Dr. theol. with Herbert Vorgrimler at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1987 Lutz-Bachmann completed his habilitation at the University of Münster with a thesis on Max Horkheimer's religious philosophy . From 1989 to 1994 he was a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin .

He has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt since 1994 with a focus on medieval philosophy, practical philosophy, with a special focus on political philosophy , the philosophy of religion and critical theory . In 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002, Lutz-Bachmann taught as James Collins Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University . Since 2002 he has been Adjunct Professor of Philosophy there.

Lutz-Bachmann received a call to the University of Tübingen in 2003 and a call to Washington University in St. Louis and in 2006 a call to the University of Bonn . Furthermore, from 2004 to 2008 he was an elected member of the Philosophy Review Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG). He has been head of the Philosophy Section of the Görres Society since 2006 .

From March 2009 to March 2015, Lutz-Bachmann was Vice President of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with special responsibility for research and for the humanities and cultural studies. During his term of office, the establishment of the Research College for Human Sciences into an "Institute for Advanced Studies" at Goethe University, the establishment of the Center for Islamic Studies , the establishment of the Research Center for Historical Humanities and the establishment of the Institut Français d'Histoire en Allemagne (now Institut Franco-Allemand de Sciences Historiques et Sociales ) at the Goethe University.

He is the initiator and (co) editor of the scientific book series: Political Philosophy and Legal Theory of the Middle Ages and Modern Times (PPR) in the frommann-Holzboog Verlag , Stuttgart; Herder's Library of Philosophy of the Middle Ages (HBPhMA) published by Herder Verlag , Freiburg; Religion in the Modern Age at Echter Verlag ; Kosmopolis in Alber Verlag , Freiburg, the online source collection The School of Salamanca. A digital source book and a dictionary of their legal and political language of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz, and co-editor of one of the leading journals in philosophy, the philosophical yearbook in Publisher Karl Alber , Freiburg / Munich.

Lutz-Bachmann has been director of the Human Sciences Research College at Goethe University, based in Bad Homburg, since 2012 . Since 2017, together with Prof. Enrico Schleiff, he has headed the Johanna Quandt Academy to promote the world's best young scientists through special scholarships at Goethe University. Also in 2017, he and Volker Mosbrugger received the Hessian Culture Prize for special achievements in art, science and cultural mediation.

Large photograph by Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (on the left by Alfred Schmidt ) in the Frankfurt Bockenheimer Warte subway station .

Trivia

In the Bockenheimer Warte subway station near the Bockenheim campus, he is pictured (together with Alfred Schmidt ) on one of Barbara Klemm's murals from the 1980s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the person. Retrieved August 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Lutz-Bachmann, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main