Rudiger Arnzen

Rüdiger Arnzen is a German Arabist and Orientalist .

Arnzen studied Arabic , Persian language and literature as well as philosophy at the University of Bochum . In 1994 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation supervised by Gerhard Endress on a paraphrase of the Aristotelian script De anima in Arabic and Persian tradition. Burkhard Mojsisch is one of his philosophical teachers . He then worked on the Greek and Arabic Lexicon ( GALex ) project run by Gerhard Endress together with Dimitri Gutas . He is currently a research assistant at the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne and is involved in various research projects.

Arnzen's main areas of work are Arabic and Persian philosophy and the history of science of the Middle Ages and the early modern period , in particular Arabic concepts of metaphysics and the reception of the Platonic theory of ideas . In addition, Arnzen is a specialist in the lexicography and linguistics of Classical Arabic , in particular in Graeco-Arabic terminology and translation technology in the fields of philosophy, natural sciences and medicine, and is working on the European research project Greek into Arabic. Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges of the Universities of Pisa and Bochum as well as the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche . The Greek authors to whom Arnzen devotes himself to Plato and Aristotle with the font De caelo also include Euclid and the Neo-Platonist Simplikios , the Arab the mathematician Al-Nayrizi , the astrologer Al-Qabīsī and the philosopher Averroes .

Fonts (selection)

Editions

Aristotle 'De Anima. A lost late antique paraphrase in Arabic & Persian tradition. Arabic text with commentary, historical source studies & glossaries. Brill, Leiden 1998 ( Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus , 9), online . (Publication of the dissertation Bochum 1994).
Abū l-cAbbās an-Nayrīzīs excerpts from (Ps .-?) Simplicius' commentary on the definitions, postulates and axioms in Euclid's Elementa I. Introduced, edited and provided with Arabic and Latin glossaries. Cologne - Essen, 2002.
Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis. Ex recognitione Francis James Carmody (†) in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen. Editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress. 2 Vols. Peeters, Leuven 2003 (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales. Bibliotheca 4.1.1, 4.1.2.), Online .
Translation in: Anthony Lo Bello (ed.), The commentary of al-Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry. With a translation of that portion of Book I missing from ms Leiden or. 399.1 but present in the newly discovered Qom manuscript edited by Rüdiger Arnzen. Brill, Leiden 2009 (Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 8), online .
Averroes on Aristotle's Metaphysics. An Annotated Translation of the So-called Epitome. de Gruyter, Berlin 2010 (Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 5), online .

Monographs

Platonic Ideas in Arabic Philosophy. Texts and materials on the conceptual history of 'suwar aflatuniyya' and 'muthul aflatuniyya'. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, online .

Editorships

(Ed., With Jörn Thielmann): Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Studies on the sources, contents and influences of Islamic civilization and Arabic philosophy and science dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his sixty-fifth birthday. Peeters, Leuven - Paris - Dudley, MA 2004, online .

personal data
SURNAME	Arnzen, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Arabist and Orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century