Michael Frede (German: [ˈfʁeːdə]; 31 May 1940 – 11 August 2007) was a prominent scholar of ancient philosophy, described by The Telegraph as "one of the most important and adventurous scholars of ancient philosophy of recent times."[1]
Michael Frede | |
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Born | |
Died | 11 August 2007 | (aged 67)
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Main interests | Ancient philosophy |
Frede earned his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen in 1966 and worked there as an assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) from 1966 to 1971.[1]
He joined the faculty of the philosophy department at University of California, Berkeley[2] as an assistant professor (1971) and quickly rose to the status of full professor. From 1976 to 1991, he was a professor at the Princeton University Philosophy Department.[3]
He returned to Europe in 1991 and took the chair in the history of philosophy at the University of Oxford.[4] In 1997-8 he returned to Berkeley to lecture on free will as the 84th visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature; the resulting book was published posthumously.[5] He retired from Oxford in 2005 and lived in Athens, Greece, until his death in a drowning accident in 2007.[1]
He was a Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of both the British Academy (elected 1994)[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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