Stephan Otto
Stephan Otto (born December 22, 1931 in Berlin ; † June 3, 2010 ) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. He was the head of the Institute for Philosophy and Intellectual History of Humanism at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Academic career and work
Otto began his academic career as a theologian . He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1955. With a thesis on Tertullian's concept of nature , he received his doctorate in 1959 in Munich under Michael Schmaus . In Munich , he also completed his habilitation in dogmatics in 1962 ; his habilitation thesis dealt with the concept of image and its function in theology of the 12th century. He became an associate professor at the Philosophical-Theological University in Bamberg , but resigned from university service in 1964. After his re-habilitation in 1966 for philosophy and intellectual history, he taught at the University of Munich from 1970 , initially as an adjunct professor, and after Ernesto Grassi's retirement in 1973 as professor and head of the institute for the history of humanism there. Even after his retirement in 1997, Otto continued to do research.
Otto was the editor of a history of philosophy from the Renaissance and the early modern period ( History of Philosophy in Text and Presentation. Vol. 3., Renaissance and Early Modern Period , Reclam, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-009913-7 ). Studies and texts on the philosophy of the Renaissance from the Munich institute were published in the series “Die Geistesgeschichte and their methods” by Fink-Verlag .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar , 16th edition 1992, de Gruyter, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3110117541
- Tamara Albertini (ed.): Verum et factum: Contributions to the intellectual history and philosophy of the Renaissance on the 60th birthday of Stephan Otto . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-45130-X (with a list of Stephan Otto's writings)
- Giuseppe Cacciatore: "In ricordo di Stephan Otto", in: Bollettino del Centro di Studi Vichiani, XL, 2010/2, 7-12, ISSN 0392-7334
- Thomas Meyer: Reason entangled in history. Understanding the fury of disappearance: On the death of the Munich philosopher Stephan Otto . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 133, June 14, 2010, p. 12. ( page no longer available , search in web archives: articles on the web )
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephan Otto in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/publikationen/mum/mum_aktuell/pdf/mum_01_11/verstorben_01_11.pdf
- ↑ https://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/publikationen/mum/mum_aktuell/pdf/mum_01_11/verstorben_01_11.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 2010 |