William Wall Fortenbaugh

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William Wall Fortenbaugh (born July 10, 1936 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American classical philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Fortenbaugh graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1964 with a Ph.D. thesis on Aristotle's concept of deliberate choice in Classical Philology. PhD. Fortenbaugh was, after all, Professor of Classics at Rutgers University . He is now retired.

Research priorities

His main research interests are Aristotle , Theophrast and Hellenistic philosophy . Since 1979 he has headed the Theophrastus project for the collection, edition, translation and commentary on the fragments of Theophrastus. As a starting point for his work, he had a collection of fragments of Theophrastus that had originally been created by Franz Dirlmeier and then came into the hands of Andreas Graeser . With Dirlmeier's consent, he left it to Fortenbaugh for further processing. To this end, Fortenbaugh started his research career in 1976 as a Humboldt fellow at Heidelberg University and was supported there by Herwig Görgemanns , a student of Dirlmeier. He then worked closely with an international team from the USA and Europe, including Pamela Huby (Liverpool), Robert W. Sharples (London), Peter Steinmetz (Saarbrücken) and, for the Arabic texts, Dimitri Gutas (Yale) and Hans Daiber (Frankfurt am Main). From 1990 to 1991 Fortenbaugh was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar . In 1992 the collection of fragments was completed and printing began. The basic edition of Fragments and Testimonia was first published in two volumes in 1992, and since then nine thematically arranged volumes of commentaries by various authors have been published successively (only volumes 6 and 8 are by William W. Fortenbaugh).

Fortenbaugh is editor of Rutgers Studies in Classical Humanities (RUSCH), which is intended as a collection of accompanying publications of the Theophrast project and takes into account the entire Peripatos .

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications can be found in David C. Mirhady (Ed.): Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric. Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh . Brill, Leiden 2007 (Philosophia Antiqua, 105), 19-24.

Monographs

  • Aristotle on emotion. A contribution to philosophical psychology, rhetoric, poetics, politics, ethics. Duckworth, London; Barnes and Noble, New York 1975, reprinted with an afterword in 2002.

Texts, translations, commentaries on Theophrastus of Eresus

  • Sources on Theophrastus' ethics . BR Gruener, Amsterdam Verlag 1984 (Studies on Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 12), ISBN 90-6032-218-5 , excerpts online . - (Edition and commentary on the fragments and testimony on ethics).
  • Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence. Ed. and transl. with Pamela Huby , Robert W. Sharples & Dimitri Gutas . Brill, Leiden 1992, reprint with corrections 1993. - (Text with critical apparatus and English translation of the fragments and testimonia)
  • Theophrastus: On Sweat, in Theophrastus, On Sweat, On Dizziness and On Fatigue . Ed. with Robert Sharples and Michael G. Sollenberger. Brill, Leiden 2003, online . - (text, translation, commentary). - Review by Tad Brennan , in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.01.09
  • Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence. Commentary Volume 8: Sources on Rhetoric and Poetics. Brill, Leiden 2005. - (Commentary).
  • Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought & Influence . Commentary Volume 6a: Sources on Ethics. Brill, Leiden 2005. - (Commentary).

Collected Essays

  • Theophrastean Studies . Franz Schneider, Stuttgart 2003, online
  • Aristotle's Practical Side. On his psychology, ethics, politics and rhetoric . Brill, Leiden 2006. - Review by Priscilla Sakezles, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04/32/2007 ; Michael Ewbank, in: The Review of Metaphysics 61, 2007, pp. 414-416, online

Editorships

  • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Georg Wöhrle ): On the Opuscula of Theophrastus . Steiner, Stuttgart 2003 (Philosophy of Antiquity, Vol. 14), excerpts online .
  • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed.): Rutgers Studies in Classical Humanities (RUSCH). The volumes listed below were published by Transaction Books, New Brunswick.
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed.): On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus . 1983 (RUSCH Vol. I).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Eds., With Anthony Arthur Long and Pamela M. Huby): Theophrastus of Eresus: On His Life and Works . 1985 (RUSCH Vol. II).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Robert W. Sharples): Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Science, Physics and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion and Rhetoric . 1987 (RUSCH Vol. III).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Peter Steinmetz ): Cicero's Knowledge of the Peripatos . 1989 (RUSCH Vol. IV), online .
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Dimitri Gutas ): Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical and Scientific Writings . 1992 (RUSCH Vol. V).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With David Mirhady): Peripatetic Rhetoric after Aristotle . 1994 (RUSCH Vol. VI).
    • Lewis Ayres (Ed.): The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions . 1995 (RUSCH Vol. VII).
    • Jan M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte (eds.): Theophrastus: Reappraising the Sources . 1998 (RUSCH Vol. VIII).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Eckart Schütrumpf ): Demetrius of Phalerum: Text, Translation and Discussion. 2000 (RUSCH Vol. IX). - Review by D. Thomas Benediktson, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.04.11
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Eckart Schütrumpf): Dicaearchus of Messana: Text, Translation and Discussion . 2001 (RUSCH X).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Istvan Bodnár): Eudemus of Rhodes . 2002 (RUSCH Vol. XI). - Review by Robert B. Todd, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.11.10 .
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Stephen A. White): Lyco of Troas and Hieronymus of Rhodes: Text, Translation and Discussion . 2004 (RUSCH Vol. XII).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Stephen A. White): Aristo of Ceos: Text, Translation and Discussion . 2006 (RUSCH Vol. XIII). - Review by Ivo Volt, in: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswwissenschaft 9, 2006, 1083-1095, online .
    • Eckart Schütrumpf (eds.), Peter Stork, Jan M. van Ophuijsen, Susan Prince (transl.): Heraclides of Pontus. Texts and Translations . 2008 (RUSCH Vol. XIV).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Elizabeth Pender): Heraclides of Pontus: Discussion of the Textual Evidence. 2009 (RUSCH Vol. XV).
    • William W. Fortenbaugh (Ed., With Marie-Laurence Declos): Strato of Lampsacus: Text, Translation and Discussion. 2010 (RUSCH Vol. XVI).

literature

  • David C. Mirhady (Ed.): Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric. Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh . Brill, Leiden 2007 (Philosophia Antiqua, 105)

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personal data
SURNAME Fortenbaugh, William Wall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fortenbaugh, William W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania