Werner Jaeger
Werner Wilhelm Jaeger (30 July 1888 – 19 October 1961) was a German-American classicist.
Life
Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was born in
That year, he emigrated to the
In 1944, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
In the United States, Jaeger worked as a full professor at the University of Chicago from 1936 to 1939. He then moved to Harvard University to continue his edition of the Church father Gregory of Nyssa on which he had started before World War I. Jaeger would remain in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until his death.
The American classicist Robert Renehan[2] and Canadian philosophers James Doull and Robert Crouse were among his students at Harvard.
Scholarly work
Interpretation of Plato and Aristotle
Jaeger's position concerning the history of the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle has been summarized by
Works
- Emendationum Aristotelearum specimen (1911)
- Studien zur Enstehungsgeschichte der Metaphysik des Aristoteles (1911)
- Nemesios von Emesa. Quellenforschung zum Neuplatonismus und seinen Anfaengen bei Poseidonios(1914)
- Gregorii Nysseni Opera, vol. I-X (since 1921, latest 2009)
- Aristoteles: Grundlegung einer Geschichte seiner Entwicklung (1923; English trans. by Richard Robinson (1902-1996) as Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, 1934)
- Platons Stellung im Aufbau der griechischen Bildung (1928)
- Paideia; die Formung des griechischen Menschen, 3 vols. (German, 1933–1947; trans. by Gilbert Highet as Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, 1939–1944)
- Humanistische Reden und Vorträge (1937)
- Demosthenes (Sather Classical Lecture), 1934, 1938 trans. by Edward Schouten Robinson; German edition 1939)
- Humanism and Theology, (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1943)
- The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (Gifford Lectures) 1936, translated by Edward Schouten Robinson,1947; 1953 German edition
- Two rediscovered works of ancient Christian literature: Gregory of Nyssa and Macarius,1954
- Aristotelis Metaphysica, 1957
- Scripta Minora, 2 vol., 1960
- Early Christianity and Greek Paideia, 1961
- Gregor von Nyssas Lehre vom Heiligen Geist, 1966
References
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ Robert Francis Xavier Renehan (April 25, 1935 - April 26, 2019)
- ^ Cherniss, Harold (1962). Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Russell and Russell, Inc., p. xi.
External links
- Werner Jaeger at the Database of Classical Scholars
- The Sather Professor - UC Berkeley Classics Department