Sten Ebbesen

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Sten Ebbesen (* 1946 ) is a Danish classical philologist , medievalist , linguist and historian of philosophy .

Ebbesen studied classical philology with Johnny Christensen (graduation 1972) and modern Greek language and literature (graduation 1968) in Copenhagen and Saloniki . In 1981 he received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen . From 1972 he worked at the Institute for Greek and Latin Medieval Philology at the University of Copenhagen and its successor institutes (Institute for Greek and Latin from 1992, from 2004 Saxo Institute). He is now a professor there and has headed the Center for Aristotelian Tradition there since 2009.

He deals with the philosophy of the Middle Ages (especially the reception of Aristotle in Scholasticism ) and medieval logic , with the Greek (ancient Greek and modern Greek) language and the Latin language.

Since 1982 he has been editor of the Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi and since 1982 editor of the Cahiers de l´Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin (CIMAGL). From 1992 to 2000 he was a member of the Council of the Société Internationale pour l'étude de la Philosophie Médiévale . From 1990 to 1993 he was President of the Danish Society for Ancient and Medieval Research (Dansk Selskab for Oldtids- og Middelalderforskning) and since 1986 President of the Buridan Society. In 1991 he received the Einar Hansen Prize for outstanding humanistic research.

Since 1989 he has been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

  • Textbook of Modern Greek (Danish), Copenhagen, 1970, 2nd edition 1977
  • Commentators and Commentaries on Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi: A Study of Post-Aristotelian Ancient and Medieval Writings on Fallacies , Vol. 1–3, Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum VII.1-3, Brill, Leiden 1981 (partly = dissertation)
  • Ancient scholastic logic as the source of medieval scholastic logic , in: Norman Kretzmann, A. Kenny , Jan Pinborg (eds.): The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy , 1982, pp. 101-127
  • with Jan Pinborg: Medieval Semantics. Selected Studies on Medieval Logic and Grammar , London, Variorum 1984
  • Boethius as to Aristotelian Scholar , in: J. Wiesner (ed.): Aristoteles, Werk undffekt, Vol. 2, pp. 286-311, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1987
  • Mithrsg .: Language Theories in Spätantike und Mittelalter , Vol. 3, in: Peter Schmitter (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Sprachtheorie , Tübingen, Narr 1995
  • The Paris Arts Faculty , in: John Marenbon (ed.): Medieval Philosophy , Routledge 1998 (Routledge History of Philosophy)
  • Article: Averroism , Boethius of Dacia , Radulphus Brito , Medieval Theories of Language , in: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 1998
  • Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction , in: K. Ierodiakonou (ed.): Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002, pp. 15-30
  • Dansk middelalderfilosofi approx. 1170 - 1536 , vol. 1, in: Ebbesen / CH Koch: Den Danske Filosofis Historie , Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2002
  • with CH Koch: Dansk filosofi i renæssancen 1537-1700 , Vol. 2, in: Ebbesen / CH Koch: Den Danske Filosofis Historie , Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2003
  • Edited with RL Friedman: John Buridan and Beyond. Topics in the Language Sciences, 1300-1700 , Hist.-Filos. Medd., Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Vol. 89, 2004
  • Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen , Vol. 1, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008
  • Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th centuries: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen , Volume 2, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009
  • Ed .: The Aristotelian commentators in John Marenbon. Cambridge Companion to Aristotle , Cambridge University Press 2009

Text output:

  • with Th. Izbicki, J. Longeway, F. del Punta, Eleonore Stump (eds.): Simon of Faversham , Quaestiones super Libro Elenchorum , Studies and Texts 60, PIMS: Toronto, 1984
  • Incertorum Auctorum Quaestiones super Sophisticos Elenchos , Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi, Volume VII, 1977
  • Anonymi Aurelianensis. Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos , CIMAGL, Volume 34, 1979, pp. 1-200

Editor of the edition of Johannes Buridan's Summulae by the Buridan Society.

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SURNAME Ebbesen, Sten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish classical philologist, medievalist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 1946