Date and place of birth: 6th March, 1964 in Pforzheim (Germany).
Education:
1985-91: Studies of Philosophy, Greek and Theology at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, and Paris IV (Sorbonne)
1991: Magister der Philosophie (Master of Philosophy)
1993: PhD (University of Munich)
1999: Habilitation (University of Tübingen)
Academic Employment:
1993-1994: Research Assistant, University of Tübingen
1994-1999: Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen
2000-2001: Professor (C3: Associate Professor) of Philosophy at the University of Giessen.
Since 2001: Professor (C4: Full Professor, Chair) for Ancient Philosophy and Practical Philosophy, University of Bonn
2006-2007: Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
2009: Job offer by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Chair of Practical Philosophy; rejected)
2010-2011: Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2013: Visiting Professor at the University of Porto Alegre (PUCRS, Brazil)
2014: Job offer by the University of Tübingen (Chair of Practical Philosophy; rejected)
Awards and Honours
1999: Award of the Kurt-Port-Gesellschaft for the essay “Die deutsche Wertphilosophie – eine zu Unrecht vergessene Tradition?“
2003-2004: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (Institute of Advanced Study)
2007-2008: Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover (FIPH)
2015: Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
2017: Member of the Institut internationale de philosophie (IIP, Paris)
2021-2022: Fellow at the New Institute Hamburg
Functions and Memberships
─ Editor of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (co-eds. Karin de Boer, Leuven, John Carriero, UCLA, and Katja Vogt, New York)
─ Editor of the Gnomon (co-eds. H.J. Gehrke, H. v.Hesberg, M. Hose, J. Maran, K. Volk und P. Zanker)
Grants
1986-91: Grant of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1991-93: Grant of the Cusanuswerk
Main interests
─ Plato, ─ Aristotle, ─ Kant, ─ Contemporary Political Philosophy, ─ Contemporary Moral Philosophy
