Mechthild Dreyer
Mechthild Dreyer (born October 21, 1955 in Ratingen ) is a German philosopher and university professor.
Life
From 1974 to 1980 she completed a degree in Catholic theology , philosophy and education at the University of Bonn and graduated in 1980 with a diploma in Catholic theology. During her doctorate, from 1980 to 1982 she was a research assistant at the seminar for Christian Philosophy of Religion / Fundamental Theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and from 1982 to 1984 received a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Fund . After receiving her doctorate in philosophy in 1984 on the idea of God with Hermann Cohen , she worked at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn, where she completed her habilitation in 1995 with a thesis on scientific knowledge in the 12th century. In 1997 she received the Prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and was deputy director of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Bonn from 1995 to 1999. Since 1999 she has been Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ; the professorship is a concordat chair .
From 2004 to 2008 she was Deputy Chairperson of the University Council of the University of Mainz and 2005-2008 spokeswoman for the Historical and Cultural Studies Research Center Mainz and Trier . From 2010 to January 14, 2018, she was Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the University of Mainz. Since 2011 she has been at the graduate school “Theology as Science. Formation processes of the reflexivity of faith traditions in historical and systematic analysis (GRK 1728/1 “) ( University of Frankfurt a. M. ) involved.
Her main research interests are metaphysics , the philosophy of science, especially of the Middle Ages, and the philosophy of the history of philosophy .
Fonts
- Monographs
- The idea of God in the work of Hermann Cohen. (= Monographs on philosophical research 230). Königstein im Taunus 1985. Dissertation Bonn 1984
- More mathematicorum. Reception and transformation of ancient forms of scientific knowledge in the 12th century (= contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages , NF 47). Münster 1996. Habilitation thesis Bonn 1995/96
- Razionalità scientifica e teologia (= Storia della teologia medievale 24). Milan 2001
- with Mary B. Ingham: Johannes Duns Scotus as an introduction . Hamburg 2003
- Editing
- with Kurt Fleischhauer: Nature and Person in Ethical Disputes . Freiburg im Breisgau 1998
- with Ludger Honnefelder among others: Albertus Magnus and the beginnings of Aristotle's reception in the Latin Middle Ages. From Richardus Rufus to Franciscus de Mayronis . Munster 2005
- with Jörg Rogge : Mainz in the Middle Ages . Mainz 2009
- with Jan Kusber among others: Historical cultural studies. Positions, Practices and Perspectives . Bielefeld 2010
- with Edouard Mehl: La réception de Duns Scotus / The reception des Duns Scotus (= Proceedings of The Quadruple Congress on Duns Scotus Pt. 4). Münster 2013
- with Klaus Dicke u. Uwe Schmidt: Humanities and social sciences at the university of tomorrow . Wiesbaden 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Mechthild Dreyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage at the University of Mainz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dreyer, Mechthild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratingen |