Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

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Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (born June 23, 1946 in Olpe ) is a German historian of philosophy and university professor in Berlin, assigned to the Ritter School .

academic career

Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann studied philosophy , literature , history and theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1966 to 1974 . In 1974 he finished his studies with a dissertation on "Machine and the devil - Jean Paul's youth satires based on their model history". From 1974 to 1976 he conducted research at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel on the early modern period and on the philosophy of religion of Hermann Samuel Reimarus . From 1976 to 1979 he was head of department at the local science program.

As an assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , Schmidt-Biggemann completed his habilitation in 1981 with a thesis on "Topica universalis - A model history of humanistic and baroque science". Schmidt-Biggemann has been Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin since 1989. His work focuses on the philosophy of religion , the history of philosophy and philology in the early modern period, the philosophy of history , the history of metaphysics and the history of political philosophy .

External activities

In 1990 he encouraged the DAAD to finance a German professorship at Charles University in Prague , which he was the first to hold. In 1993 he conducted research as a guest at the DAAD in Paris . He taught as visiting professor from 1995 to 1996 at the Department of History at Princeton University , 1997 at Sidney-Sussex-College, University of Cambridge ( England ) and 1998 at the Institut for Germank filologi at the University of Copenhagen . As a " Fellow " he conducted research in 1999 at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and from 2004 to 2005 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. In 2011 he was visiting professor at Tel Aviv University .

Awards

  • 2016: Senior Endowed Professor of the Friedrich Foundation
  • 2013: Hamann Research Prize
  • 1993: Gold Medal from Charles University in Prague for services to research on the history of philosophy in Czechoslovakia and for teaching underground from 1982–1989
  • 1990: Comenius Medal from the Prague Academy of Sciences
  • 1974: Prize for excellent dissertations from the Ruhr University Bochum

Fonts

Monographs
  • God, tentatively. A philosophical theo-logy. Freiburg, Basel and Vienna: Herder 2018, ISBN 978-3451381232 .
  • History knowledge. A philosophy of contingency following Schelling (= Problemata. Vol. 156). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7728-2674-0 .
  • History of the Christian Kabbalah (= Clavis Pansophiae . Vol. 10). 4 volumes. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2012-2014, ISBN 978-3-7728-2541-5 .
  • Practical philosophy as a provocation. Christian Wolff's philosophy in the politics of ideas of the early enlightenment. Gyakorlati filozófia mint provokáció. Christian Wolff filozófiája a korai felvilágosodás eszmeppolitikájában. Budapest: DUGPhil 2008, ISBN 978-963-88139-1-6 .
  • Apocalypse and Philology. Knowledge stories and world designs of the early modern period. Edited by Anja Hallacker and Boris Bayer. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-313-8 .
  • Political Theology of the Counter-Enlightenment. Saint-Martin, De Maistre, Kleuker, Baader. Berlin: Academy 2004, ISBN 3-05-004077-7 .
  • Blaise Pascal. Munich: Beck 1999, ISBN 3-406-41953-4 .
  • Philosophia perennis. Historical outlines of occidental spirituality in antiquity, the Middle Ages and early modern times. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1998, ISBN 3-518-58261-5 . English translation: Philosophia perennis. Historical Outlines of Western Spirituality in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought (= International Archives of the History of Ideas. Vol. 189). Dordrecht: Springer, 2004, ISBN 1-4020-3066-5 .
  • Sense-worlds-sense. A philosophical topic. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1992, ISBN 3-518-58131-7 .
  • History as an absolute term. The course of modern German philosophy. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1991, ISBN 3-518-58098-1 .
  • Theodicy and facts. The philosophical profile of the German Enlightenment. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988, ISBN 3-518-28322-7 .
  • Topica universalis. A model history of humanistic and baroque science. Hamburg: Meiner 1983, ISBN 3-7873-0568-8 .
  • Hermann Samuel Reimarus. List of manuscripts and bibliography. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1979, ISBN 3-525-85562-1 .
  • Spinoza. Work and effect. Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek 1977. 3 editions. English translation: Spinoza, his Work and its Reception. Baarn: Menno Hertzberger 1977.
  • Jean Paul Chronicle. Data on life and work. Munich 1975 (together with Gabriele and Uwe Schweikert).
  • Machine and devil. Jean Paul's youth satires based on their model history. Freiburg and Munich: Karl Alber 1975, ISBN 3-495-47317-3 .
Editions
  • Robert Fludd: Utriusque Cosmi Historia. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstat: Frommann-Holzboog 2018, ISBN 978-3772816277 .
  • Samuel Pufendorf: Collected Works. Berlin Academy 1996ff., ISBN 3-05-002887-4 .
  • Johann Valentin Andreae: Collected writings. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1994ff., ISBN 3-7728-1426-3 .
  • Hermann Samuel Reimarus: Small philosophical writings. Preliminary stages to the apology. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1994, ISBN 3-525-86270-9 .
  • Johann Heinrich Alstedt: Encyclopaedia. Facs. Reprint of the Herborn 1630 edition with a foreword by W. Schmidt-Biggemann and a bibliography by Jörg Jungmayr. Vol. 1 and 2 (1989), vol. 3 and 4 (1990). Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1989, ISBN 3-7728-0954-5 .
  • Jean Paul: Complete Works (together with Norbert Miller ), Department II, Vols. 1–3 (writings for young people, mixed writings), Munich: Carl Hanser 1974ff., ISBN 3-446-11658-3 .
Anthologies
  • Christian Kabbalah. Stuttgart: Thorbecke 2003, ISBN 3-7995-5980-9 .
  • Outline of the History of Philosophy of the 17th Century (together with Helmut Holzhey ), Vol. 4.1; 4.2 (Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Northern Europe, East-Central Europe 17th century). Basel 2001.
  • Jacob Brucker (1696–1770) (together with Theo Stammen). Berlin: de Gruyter 1998, ISBN 3-05-003097-6 .
  • The evil. A historical phenomenology of the inexplicable (together with Carsten Colpe ). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1993, ISBN 3-518-28678-1 .
  • Disiecta Membra. Studies. Karlfried founder on his 60th birthday. Basel: Schwabe 1989, ISBN 3-7965-0887-1 .
  • Spinoza in the early days of his religious influence (together with Karlfried founder). Heidelberg: de Gruyter 1984, ISBN 3-7953-0729-5 .
  • Spinoza's ethics and their early impact (together with Conrad Cramer and Wilhelm G. Jacobs). Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library 1981, ISBN 3-88373-016-5 .
  • Enlightenment in Germany (together with Paul Raabe ). Bonn: Hohwacht 1979, ISBN 3-87353-074-0 .
Editing
  • Series Clavis Pansophiae (together with Charles Lohr). Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog 1995ff.
  • Scientia Poetica. Yearbook for the history of literature and science (together with Lutz Danneberg, Horst Thomé and Fritz Vollhardt). Tübingen: de Gruyter 1997ff.
  • The 18th century. Communications from the German Society for Research in the 18th Century. Vol. 1-3, 1977ff.
  • Studies on the 18th Century. Vol. 1: The eighteenth century as an epoch. Hamburg: Meiner 1978. Vol. 2/3: Germany's cultural development 1763–1790. The redefinition of man. Changes in the anthropological concept in the 18th century. Hamburg: Mine 1980.

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  1. ^ Free University of Berlin. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Retrieved October 19, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Olpe