Christoph Helmig
Position
Co-Director
Profile
Christoph Helmig, born in 1973, studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Münster and Trinity College Dublin. 1998-2000 he was Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition in Dublin.
He received a Master of Letters in Classics at Dublin with a study on Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta in 2001 and "Magister Artium" and "First State Exam" in Münster in 2002.
In 2006 he received his PhD in Philosophy (Leuven); title of the dissertation "Ideas and Concepts. Proclus' Theory of Knowledge between Platonic Recollection and Aristotelian Abstraction".
Since 2008 Christoph Helmig is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
In 2006 he received his PhD in Philosophy (Leuven); title of the dissertation "Ideas and Concepts. Proclus' Theory of Knowledge between Platonic Recollection and Aristotelian Abstraction".
Since 2008 Christoph Helmig is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Research Fields
- Platonism in Antiquity
- Ancient Theories of Concept Formation
- Space (topos) in Neoplatonism
- Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Method and Metaphysics)
Activities
- since fall 2009: Co-Director of the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy with Jonathan Beere
- since April 2009: coordinator of the Junior Research Group "Place, Space and Motion" at the Excellence Cluster Topoi.
- since 2008: Academic Coordinator of the Graduate School
- since 2006: Member of the Academia Platonica (Münster)
Selected Publications
- Neue Forschungen zum Neuplationismus (1995-2003), Teil I und II, in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (together with C. Steel) 2004.
- Proclus: Fifteen Years of Research (1990-2004). An Annotated Bibliography, in: Lustrum (research survey, together with P. d’Hoine, C. Macé, L. Van Campe, under the direction of C. Steel) 2005.
- Plato's Arguments against Conceptualism – Parm. 132b3-c11 reconsidered", Elenchos 28 (2007), 303-336.
- Platonic Stoicism – Stoic Platonism. The Dialogue between Platonism and Stoicism in Antiquity, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007. [together with Bonazzi, contains contributions by B. Inwood, B. Sharples, C. Gill, T. Tieleman, R. Chiaradonna, G. Reydams-Schils]
- Proclus and other Neoplatonists on Universals and Predication, in: Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 2008.
- The Truth can never be refuted. Syrianus' View(s) on Aristotle reconsidered, in: A. Longo (ed.), Syrianus et la métaphysique de l’antiquité tardive, Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2009.
Contact
christoph.helmig@philosophie.hu-berlin.de
Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Luisenstraße 56
10099 Berlin
Tel.: +49.30.2093-70414
Fax: +49-30.2093-70436
