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Birthabt 1901
Death1979, Oxford, England613
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MotherElse CASSIRER (1873-1942)
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Notes for Dr Richard WALZER FBA
From a Wiki entry at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rudolf_Walzer:
Richard Rudolf Walzer FBA (born July 14, 1900 in Berlin, † April 16, 1975 in Oxford) was a German-British classical philologist, philosopher and orientalist. He specialized in Greek and Arabic philosophy and was a member of the British Academy.
He was born the son of the Jewish merchant Max Walzer and his wife Elfriede. In 1918 he passed his final exams at the Werner-Siemens-Realgymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg. He first studied medicine and Hebrew at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. After he had heard lectures with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, he moved in 1919 to the Gräzistik.
In 1927 he received his doctorate on Magna Moralia and Aristotelian ethics. He provided evidence for the prevailing opinion, according to which the Magna Moralia is not Aristotle's, against Hans von Arnim's attempt to identify the MM as an early work of Aristotle. In the same year he became an assistant at the University of Berlin, in 1932 he habilitated on studies on the unity of the Herodoteischen Geschichtswerk, became a Privatdozent for classical philology. In his inaugural lecture on Classical Studies and Oriental Studies, he clarified the tradition of Greek thought in Arabic philosophy.
In 1933 he was released as a Jew, while he visited Italy with his wife. Friends warned him against returning to Germany. Walzer remained in Italy until 1938, teaching Greek philosophy at the University of Rome and translating Heraclitus into Italian.
When Italy, too, became dangerous for Jews, he moved to Britain. In 1942 he found a position at Oriel College, Oxford University. At first he was a lecturer in Greek philosophy. In 1945 he became editor of medieval philosophy. In 1950 a chair for late Greek and medieval Arabic philosophy was created for him. In 1962 he moved from Oxford University of Oriel College at St Catherine's College.
In 1952 he was additionally honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. In 1953 and 1954, he conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton, New Jersey. In 1956 he was elected a member of the British Academy. With Samuel Miklos star, he published from 1962 the journal Oriental Studies.
Walzer was married from 1927 to Martha Eva Sophie Cassirer, daughter of the publisher Bruno Cassirer.612
• His work is referenced in:
• Luc Deitz: Walzer, Richard Rudolf (1900–1975). In: H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Hrsg.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. From the earliest times to the year 2000. Band 57: Walliers – Welles. Oxford University Press, Oxford u. a. 2004, ISBN 0-19-861407-1, S. 231–232.
• Samuel M. Stern (Hrsg.): Islamic philosophy and the classical tradition. Essays presented by his friends and pupils to Richard Walzer on his 70. birthday (= Oriental Studies. Vol. 5). Cassirer, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-85181-007-1.
• Fritz Wehrli: Richard Walzer † In: Gnomon. Bd. 48, 1976, S. 221–222.
His works included:
• Magna Moralia und aristotelische Ethik (= Neue philologische Untersuchungen. H. 7, ZDB-ID 500328-3). Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1929 (Zugleich: Berlin, Universität, wesentlich erweiterte und umgestaltete Dissertation, 1927).
• Galens Schrift über die medizinische Erfahrung: Vorläufiger Bericht. In: Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. 1932, ISSN 0933-8152, S. 449–468 (Auch Sonderabdruck: de Gruyter, Berlin 1932).
• als Herausgeber: Aristotelis Dialogorum fragmenta (= Testi della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Vol. 2, ZDB-ID 2279626-5). Sansoni, Florenz 1934 (Nachdruck. Olms, Hildesheim 1963; Licosa Reprints, Florenz 1972).
• Studi su al-Kindī. 2 Bände. 1938–1940;
• Band 1: mit M. Guidi: Uno scritto introduttivo allo studio di Aristotele. In: Memorie della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Ser. 6, Vol. 6, Fasc. 6, 1940, ISSN 0391-8149, S. 375–419 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Bardi, Rom 1938).
• Band 2: mit H. Ritter: Uno scritto morale inedito di al-Kindī (Temistio Περὶ ὰλυρὶας?). In: Memorie della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Ser. 6, Vol. 8, Fasc. 1, 1938, S. 5–63 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Bardi, Rom 1938).
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: Eraclito: Raccolta dei frammenti e traduzione italiana (= Testi della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Vol. 4). Sansoni, Florenz 1939 (Nachdruck. Olms, Hildesheim 1964).
• als Herausgeber mit Franz Rosenthal: Alfarabius: De Platonis philosophia (= Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Arabus. Vol. 2, ZDB-ID 2325939-5). Warburg Institute, London 1943 (Text arabisch und lateinisch).
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: Galen on medical experience. 1st edition of the arabic version with english translation and notes. Oxford University Press, London u. a 1944 (Nachdruck. ebenda 1946).
• Arabic Transmission of Greek Thought to Medieval Europe. In: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Vol. 29, Nr. 1, 1945, ISSN 0021-7239, S. 160–183 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1945).
• Galen on Jews and Christians. Oxford University Press u. a., Oxford u. a. 1949.
• als Herausgeber mit Paul Kraus: Galeni compendium Timaei Platonis. Aliorumque dialogorum synopsis quae extant fragmenta (= Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Arabus. Vol. 1). Warburg Institute, London 1951 (Nachdruck. Kraus Reprint, Nedeln 1973).
• New Light on the Arabic Translations of Aristotle. In: Oriens. Vol. 6, Nr. 1, 1953, ISSN 0078-6527, S. 91–142.
• Islamic Philosophy. In: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Hrsg.): History of Philosophy Eastern and Western. Band 2. Allen & Unwin, London 1953, S. 120–148 (2nd imprint. ebenda 1957).
• Greek into Arabic. Essays on Islamic philosophy (= Oriental Studies. Vol. 1, ZDB-ID 417304-1). Bruno Cassirer, Oxford 1962 (2nd imprint. ebenda 1963).
• L’éveil de la philosophie islamique (= Revue des etudes islamiques. Hors serie Vol. 1, ISSN 0768-262X). Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1971.
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: al-Farabi on the perfect state. = Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī’s Mabādi' Ārā' ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila. A revised text with introduction, translation, and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-19-824505-X (Text arabisch und englisch).
• als Übersetzer mit Michael Frede: Galen: Three Treatises on the Nature of Science (= Hackett Classics. Vol. 592). Hackett, Indianapolis IN u. a. 1985, ISBN 0-915145-91-X.
• als Herausgeber mit J. M. Mingay: Aristotelis Ethica Eudemia. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-19-814575-6 (Text griechisch und lateinisch, Einführung lateinisch).612
See also Literatur von und über Richard Rudolf Walzer im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek612
Richard Rudolf Walzer FBA (born July 14, 1900 in Berlin, † April 16, 1975 in Oxford) was a German-British classical philologist, philosopher and orientalist. He specialized in Greek and Arabic philosophy and was a member of the British Academy.
He was born the son of the Jewish merchant Max Walzer and his wife Elfriede. In 1918 he passed his final exams at the Werner-Siemens-Realgymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg. He first studied medicine and Hebrew at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. After he had heard lectures with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, he moved in 1919 to the Gräzistik.
In 1927 he received his doctorate on Magna Moralia and Aristotelian ethics. He provided evidence for the prevailing opinion, according to which the Magna Moralia is not Aristotle's, against Hans von Arnim's attempt to identify the MM as an early work of Aristotle. In the same year he became an assistant at the University of Berlin, in 1932 he habilitated on studies on the unity of the Herodoteischen Geschichtswerk, became a Privatdozent for classical philology. In his inaugural lecture on Classical Studies and Oriental Studies, he clarified the tradition of Greek thought in Arabic philosophy.
In 1933 he was released as a Jew, while he visited Italy with his wife. Friends warned him against returning to Germany. Walzer remained in Italy until 1938, teaching Greek philosophy at the University of Rome and translating Heraclitus into Italian.
When Italy, too, became dangerous for Jews, he moved to Britain. In 1942 he found a position at Oriel College, Oxford University. At first he was a lecturer in Greek philosophy. In 1945 he became editor of medieval philosophy. In 1950 a chair for late Greek and medieval Arabic philosophy was created for him. In 1962 he moved from Oxford University of Oriel College at St Catherine's College.
In 1952 he was additionally honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. In 1953 and 1954, he conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton, New Jersey. In 1956 he was elected a member of the British Academy. With Samuel Miklos star, he published from 1962 the journal Oriental Studies.
Walzer was married from 1927 to Martha Eva Sophie Cassirer, daughter of the publisher Bruno Cassirer.612
• His work is referenced in:
• Luc Deitz: Walzer, Richard Rudolf (1900–1975). In: H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Hrsg.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. From the earliest times to the year 2000. Band 57: Walliers – Welles. Oxford University Press, Oxford u. a. 2004, ISBN 0-19-861407-1, S. 231–232.
• Samuel M. Stern (Hrsg.): Islamic philosophy and the classical tradition. Essays presented by his friends and pupils to Richard Walzer on his 70. birthday (= Oriental Studies. Vol. 5). Cassirer, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-85181-007-1.
• Fritz Wehrli: Richard Walzer † In: Gnomon. Bd. 48, 1976, S. 221–222.
His works included:
• Magna Moralia und aristotelische Ethik (= Neue philologische Untersuchungen. H. 7, ZDB-ID 500328-3). Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1929 (Zugleich: Berlin, Universität, wesentlich erweiterte und umgestaltete Dissertation, 1927).
• Galens Schrift über die medizinische Erfahrung: Vorläufiger Bericht. In: Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. 1932, ISSN 0933-8152, S. 449–468 (Auch Sonderabdruck: de Gruyter, Berlin 1932).
• als Herausgeber: Aristotelis Dialogorum fragmenta (= Testi della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Vol. 2, ZDB-ID 2279626-5). Sansoni, Florenz 1934 (Nachdruck. Olms, Hildesheim 1963; Licosa Reprints, Florenz 1972).
• Studi su al-Kindī. 2 Bände. 1938–1940;
• Band 1: mit M. Guidi: Uno scritto introduttivo allo studio di Aristotele. In: Memorie della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Ser. 6, Vol. 6, Fasc. 6, 1940, ISSN 0391-8149, S. 375–419 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Bardi, Rom 1938).
• Band 2: mit H. Ritter: Uno scritto morale inedito di al-Kindī (Temistio Περὶ ὰλυρὶας?). In: Memorie della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Ser. 6, Vol. 8, Fasc. 1, 1938, S. 5–63 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Bardi, Rom 1938).
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: Eraclito: Raccolta dei frammenti e traduzione italiana (= Testi della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Vol. 4). Sansoni, Florenz 1939 (Nachdruck. Olms, Hildesheim 1964).
• als Herausgeber mit Franz Rosenthal: Alfarabius: De Platonis philosophia (= Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Arabus. Vol. 2, ZDB-ID 2325939-5). Warburg Institute, London 1943 (Text arabisch und lateinisch).
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: Galen on medical experience. 1st edition of the arabic version with english translation and notes. Oxford University Press, London u. a 1944 (Nachdruck. ebenda 1946).
• Arabic Transmission of Greek Thought to Medieval Europe. In: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Vol. 29, Nr. 1, 1945, ISSN 0021-7239, S. 160–183 (Auch Sonderabdruck. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1945).
• Galen on Jews and Christians. Oxford University Press u. a., Oxford u. a. 1949.
• als Herausgeber mit Paul Kraus: Galeni compendium Timaei Platonis. Aliorumque dialogorum synopsis quae extant fragmenta (= Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Plato Arabus. Vol. 1). Warburg Institute, London 1951 (Nachdruck. Kraus Reprint, Nedeln 1973).
• New Light on the Arabic Translations of Aristotle. In: Oriens. Vol. 6, Nr. 1, 1953, ISSN 0078-6527, S. 91–142.
• Islamic Philosophy. In: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Hrsg.): History of Philosophy Eastern and Western. Band 2. Allen & Unwin, London 1953, S. 120–148 (2nd imprint. ebenda 1957).
• Greek into Arabic. Essays on Islamic philosophy (= Oriental Studies. Vol. 1, ZDB-ID 417304-1). Bruno Cassirer, Oxford 1962 (2nd imprint. ebenda 1963).
• L’éveil de la philosophie islamique (= Revue des etudes islamiques. Hors serie Vol. 1, ISSN 0768-262X). Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1971.
• als Herausgeber und Übersetzer: al-Farabi on the perfect state. = Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī’s Mabādi' Ārā' ahl al-madīna al-fāḍila. A revised text with introduction, translation, and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-19-824505-X (Text arabisch und englisch).
• als Übersetzer mit Michael Frede: Galen: Three Treatises on the Nature of Science (= Hackett Classics. Vol. 592). Hackett, Indianapolis IN u. a. 1985, ISBN 0-915145-91-X.
• als Herausgeber mit J. M. Mingay: Aristotelis Ethica Eudemia. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-19-814575-6 (Text griechisch und lateinisch, Einführung lateinisch).612
See also Literatur von und über Richard Rudolf Walzer im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek612