Werner Beierwaltes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German academic
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Place of Birth: Klingenberg am Main, Bavaria, Germany
About Werner Beierwaltes
- Werner Beierwaltes (* 8 May 1931, Klingenberg am Main; †22 February 2019, Würzburg) was a German academic best known as a historian of philosophy.
- His most important areas of specialization were Neoplatonism and German Idealism.
- He was an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His many books include Proklos: Grundzuge seiner Metaphysik, Denken des Einen: Studien zur neuplatonischen Philosophie und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte, Eriugena: Grundzuge seines Denkens, Platonismus im Christentum, and Platonismus und Idealismus.
- He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius, in which English-language examples of his writings may be found.
- He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Quaestio, and Anuario Filosófico.He was a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1986 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
- He was in addition admitted to the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bavarian Order of Merit.
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