Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmig

Institut für Klassische Philologie (HU)

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Christoph Helmig ist seit Oktober 2008 Juniorprofessor für Klassische Philologie (Schwerpunkt Spätantike) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und seit September 2009 Co-Direktor der Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy (zusammen mit Jonathan Beere). Seit Januar 2011 ist er zudem Direktor des Ancient Philosophy & Science Network (APSN), eines internationalen Promotionsnetzwerks der Universitäten HU Berlin, Chicago, Leuven, Princeton und Toronto.
 

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philosophische Fakultät II
Institut für Klassische Philologie

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Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

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+49 30 2093-70414

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+ 49 30 2093-70436
 
 

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"Neoplatonists on Parts, Faculties, and Substances of Soul"
part of the Conference Partition of the Soul in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Philosophy

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"Place, Space, and Motion"
part of the Workshop New Year's Workshop of Area D

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"Sceptics and Neoplatonists on Space / Place (topos) - Continuities and Discontinuities"
part of the Conference The Corollaries in the Commentaries on Aristotle's Physics by Simplicius and Philoponus

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"Simplicius’ commentary on Phys. IV. 1-5"
part of the Conference Reconsidering Simplicius’ Corollary on Place

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"Universal Soul and World Soul - Problems of Demarcation in Plotinus and after"
part of the Conference The World Soul and Cosmic Space

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"Weltseele und Weltraum"
part of the Workshop New Year's Workshop of Area D

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The World Soul and Cosmic Space
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In Topoi

2011OMOΣE ΧΩΡΕΙΝ: Simplicius, Corrolarium de loco 601.26-28 (Diels)
Helmig, Christoph. Gregoric, Pavel
2011Proclus
Helmig, Christoph. Steel, Carlos
2011Forms and Concepts : Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition
Helmig, Christoph
2010Proclus’ Criticism of Aristotle’s Theory of Concept Formation in Analytica Posteriora II 19
Helmig, Christoph
2009Weltseele im Welt-Raum oder Welt-Raum in der Weltseele? Die Weltseele (anima mundi) und ihr Verhältnis zum Raum im antiken Platonismus und dem frühen Christentum
Helmig, Christoph
 
further Publications

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2011 Forms and Concepts - Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition. A Study on Proclus and his Predecessors (Berlin – New York 2011).
  ὁμόσε χωρεῖν: A Note on Simplicius, Corollariumdeloco 601.26-8 (Diels), accepted for Classical Quarterly 2011 (co-author with P. Grigoric).
  Art. Proclus, in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [http://plato.stanford.edu/] (co-author with C. Steel)
2010 Proclus' criticism of Aristotle's theory of concept formation in AnalyticaPosteriora II 19", in: F.A.J. de Haas - M.E.M.P.J. Leunissen (eds.), Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period (Leiden 2010).
2009 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 2009) p. 347-380.
2008 Plutarch of Chaeronea and Porphyry on transmigration. Who is the author of Stobaeus I 445, 14-448, 3 (W.-H.)?,ClassicalQuarterly 58 (2008) p. 250-255.
  Plato's Arguments against Conceptualism – Parm. 132b3-c11 reconsidered,Elenchos 28 (2008) p. 303-336.
  Proclus and other Neoplatonists on universals and predication, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 19 (2008) p. 31-52.
2007 Aristotle's notion of intelligible matter, Quaestio 7 (2007) (= Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics) p. 53-78.
2005 Proclus: Fifteen Years of Research (1990-2004). An Annotated Bibliography", Lustrum 44 (2002) [immo 2005] (co-author with P. d’Hoine, C. Macé, L. Van Campe, director: C. Steel).
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

  Education
2006 Dr. phil, Catholic University of Leuven, Philosophy: Ideas and Concepts. Proclus' Theory of Knowledge between Platonic Recollection and Aristotelian Abstraction (Philosophy)
2002 M. A. and State examination, Classics, Wilhelms-Universität Münster
2001 M. Litt., Classics & Ancient Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin: A Study on Plutarch’s De sera numinis vindicta
1994–2002 Student of Classics, Science of Education, and Philosophy at the University of Münster and Trinity College, Dublin

A detailed CV and list of publications can be found at the website of the Institut für Klassische Philologie (HU).