Christian Schäfer

Biography

Christian Schäfer is Professor from Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Bamberg. Schäfer is profound in philosophy Christian Schäfer born 1967 in Jaboticabal / Brazil. 1987-1992 Studies of Catholic Theology, Philosophy and Political Science at the LMU Munich and at the SJ in Munich, as well as in Rome at the 'Gregoriana' and the 'Universitas a Sancto Thoma Aquinate in Urbe'. 1993-1995 Doctorate at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Regensburg. Subject of the dissertation: 'Xenophanes von Kolophon. A Presocratian Between Myth and Philosophy '. 1996-1997 Profesor adjunto at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito / Ecuador. 1998-2000 Habilitation at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Regensburg with the theme: 'Unde Malum. The question of the origin of evil in Plotinus, Augustine, and Dionysius of the Areopagus. 2001 DAAD lecturer at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá / Colombia. 2002-2003 Representation of the Professorship for Philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Center for Philosophy and Foundations of the Science of the Justus Liebig-University of Giessen. 2003/04 Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellow at Princeton University. 2004-2009 Professor of Christian Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Board of the Martin-Grabmann-Forschungsinstitut. Since 2009 Professor of Philosophy (Chair I) at the University of Bamberg.

Research Interest

Plato and Platonism, Scholastic philosophy