Prof. Dr. Dorothea Frede

• 1961 – 1963
  Studied German philology and musicology, University of Hamburg, Germany
  
  

• 1963 – 1968
  Studied philosophy and classical philology, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
  

• 1969 – 1971
  Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
  

• 1972 – 1978
  Instructor and visiting assistant professor at various universities in the USA
  
  

• 1978 – 1985
  Rutgers University, NJ, USA, Department of Philosophy
  
  

• 1985 – 1991
  Swarthmore College, PA, USA, Department of Philosophy
  
  

• 1991 – 2006
  University of Hamburg, Department of Philosophy
  
  

• Since 2006
  University of California
  
  

• Frede, D.: Aristoteles und die Seeschlacht. Das Problem der Contingentia Futura in De interpretatione 9. Göttingen 1970.

• Frede, D.: Platon, Philebos. Translation with commentary, Göttingen 1997.

• Frede, D.: Platons Phaidon. Der Traum von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele, Darmstadt 1999.

• Frede, D.: Heideggers Tragödie – Bemerkungen zur Bedeutung seiner Philosophie. Sitzungsberichte der Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. Hamburg 17, 1999.

• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Translation with commentary

• Plato, Timaeus – the connection between cosmology and politics

• Honorary professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, since 2008

• Member of the scientific commission of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, 2005 – 2009

• Chairperson of the review board for philosophy of the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2004 – 2008

• First president of the Society for Ancient Philosophy (Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie), 2004 – 2007

• Foreign Member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, since 2001

• Regular member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, since 2001

• Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study, 2000 – 2001

• Senior Fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington, USA, 1998 – 2003

Additional interests

• Music, literature

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