Ottfried Fraisse

Ottfried Fraisse (* around 1963 ) is a German Judaist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1982, he acquired the Graecum and Hebraicum at the Language College of the Württemberg State Church from 1983 to 1984 and in 1987 passed the intermediate examination in Protestant theology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 he obtained his MA in theology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (subject: "The Song of Songs or the aesthetics in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption" (cum laude), supervised by Rochus Zuurmond ). In 1995 he obtained his MA in Semitic Languages ​​at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (equivalence to the Jewish studies in Germany was established on July 13, 1995) "The development of the Solomon figure in the Bible, Midrash and in the philosophical interpretation of scriptures in the Middle Ages" (summos in Facultate Litterarum honores petat), supervised by Nico Adriaan van Uchelen . From 1993 to 1998 he completed a doctoral stay and studied Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (focus: paleography and codicology, Midrash, Parshanut, Judeo-Arabic, Machshevet Yisrael) and in 1998 obtained a BA in Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

In 2000 he continued his Arabic studies at the Goethe Institute in Damascus . After completing his doctorate in Jewish Studies in 2003 at the Free University of Berlin “Moses ibn Tibbons Hohelied Commentary and the philosophically oriented interpretation of scriptures in the 13th century in southern France” (summa cum laude), supervised by Giulio Busi , he was a research assistant at the Simon- Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig . From 2012 to 2015 he was coordinator and research assistant at the Graduate School 1728 ( Theology as Science - Formation Processes of the Reflexivity of Faith Traditions in Historical and Systematic Analysis ) at the University of Frankfurt . After completing his habilitation in 2014 in the subject of Jewish religious philosophy in Frankfurt ( coherence of the history of science and Judaism due to the transfer dynamics of cultural overlaps: the epistemic meaning of Islam in Ignác Goldziher's work ). The topic of the habilitation lecture was unity and difference - metamorphoses of the concept of prophecy in the Muslim-Judeo-Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages . From 2015 to 2016 he represented the Chair (W2) of Jewish Studies (Martin Buber Institute) at the University of Cologne . Since 2015 he has been a private lecturer at the University of Frankfurt (inaugural lecture: "Cultural experience of foreigners and the problem of their appropriation - basic structures of 'Christian' and 'Jewish' Islamic research in the 19th century"). From 2016 to 2019 he was the chair (W2) at the seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies at the University of Halle. From 2019 he will teach as a professor (W3) of the seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies at the University of Halle .

His research interests are rabbinical midrash (hermeneutics), Jewish-Arabic philosophy of the Middle Ages (theory of the soul), philosophical commentaries on scriptures from the Middle Ages (hermeneutics), Jewish philosophy of poetry and music (epistemology), Judaism under Islamic rule (transculturality), interpretation of law in Judaism and Islam (Comparison of methods), Enlightenment and Islam (scientification processes), Jewish Enlightenment (reinterpretation of religious traditions), Science of Judaism (Islam research) and modern Jewish philosophy (aesthetics).

Fonts (selection)

• Moses ibn Tibbon's commentary on the Song of Songs and its poetological-philosophical program. synoptic edition, translation and analysis . Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-017900-8 .
• Salomon ibn Gabirol : Fons vitae. Chapters I and II. Latin, German . Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-28704-6 .
• Ignác Goldziher's monotheistic science. On the historicization of Islam . Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-35113-0 .
• as editor: Modern Jewish scholarship on Islam in context. Rationality, European borders, and the search for belonging . Conference publication, De Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-044491-9 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse