Egil A. Wyller

Egil Wyller Anders ( born April 24, 1925) is an emeritus professor of ancient intellectual history at the University of Oslo and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. He is known internationally as a major Plato researchers and advocates of a Platonic -inspired unit thinking ( Henologie ). For his scientific achievements, he received numerous honors were bestowed.

Origin and family life

Egil A. Wyller comes from an agnostic -oriented parents. He grew up on the west coast of Norway in Stavanger, where he attended the High School of Science. His father Trygve Wyller, who worked there as a lawyer and journalist, had offered resistance to the Nazi occupation force with pamphlets, which is why he was arrested in December 1941 and later interned in the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler and Mauthausen. In the father's library Wyller discovered the works of Plato, with whom he already intensively sat as a student. 1941, the parental home was confiscated by the German military in Stavanger. The family therefore had to make a small, located on a fjord country house in Skiftun, Hjelmeland move. 1945 Trygve Wyller was liberated by the Americans and returned to his family. Already at school Egil had met his future wife Eva Middelthon, whom he married in 1949. The father died in 1960. Among the three children Egil A. Wyllers crashed the youngest son in 1980.

Scientific way

Egil A. Wyller first studied in Oslo Classical Philology, especially Gräzistik, general idea of ​​history and ancient intellectual history. He finished his MA in 1953. Plato His other research led him to the University of Tübingen to Wolfgang Schadewaldt and at the University of Freiburg Hermann Gundert. In Freiburg he met Martin Heidegger in person.

Wyller habilitated on the Henologie dialogue Parmenides. The Oslo Habilitationsschrift Plato's Parmenides was published in 1960. This Wyller interpreted introduction the theory of beauty in the Symposium and the doctrine of the Good in the Republic. The focus of the investigations relate to the theme of the one and the other in the Parmenides. Research on Nicholas of Cusa led Wyller 1962 at the University of Cologne Josef Koch. At the invitation of Wolfgang Schadewaldt, with whom he then joined a friendship, he held in 1965 in Tübingen lectures from which the book emerged Late Plato. In 1967 he was appointed a full professor at the University of Oslo.

In his major work unit and otherness, which first appeared in Norway 1981 Wyller drafted the discipline of Henologie both historically and systematically. In him the Henologie is presented as a dialectical relationship between unity and otherness. In addition to Plato's dialogue Parmenides, he studied in the historical part of the work, among others, also the teachings of Nicholas of Cusa, Kant and Fichte. In two systematic parts of an independent doctrine of principles is then first stressing the dialectic of unity and otherness developed ( "Universal Nomenclature " ), and finally in an "individual system" for the relationship between God, man and the world examined on the basis of biblical revelation.

After that Wyller in numerous publications devoted to the history of Henologie and of Platonism in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Literature Scientifically, he has also worked intensively with Goethe and Ibsen, but also with the Norwegian poets Henrik Wergeland and Olaf Bull Wyller has several dialogues of Plato translated into Norwegian and published numerous philosophical and theological essays in his mother tongue as well as works edited, the whole a twenty -volume form henologische series. In 1995 he became Professor Emeritus.

Honors and Memberships

  • Founding member and first chairman of the Scandinavian Plato Society in Copenhagen
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science
  • International Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
  • Commander of the Greek Order of the Phoenix
  • Knight 1st Class of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2000

Publications

  • Plato's Parmenides in his connection with the Symposium and Politeia: interpretations of the Platonic Henologie. Aschehoug, Oslo 1960; Reprint Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006
  • The late Plato: Tübingen 1965 my lectures, Hamburg 1970.
  • Henologie, articles in: Joachim Ritter et al (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of Philosophy. Volume 3, Schwabe, Basel 1974, Sp 1059 f
  • Henologische perspectives I: Plato - John - Cusanus. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1995
  • Plato and Platonism, articles in: Theological Encyclopaedia. De Gruyter, Berlin 1996
  • Henologische perspectives II: Symposium in honor of Egil A. Wyllers. Edited gates frost. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1997
  • Unity and otherness: a historical and systematic study on Henologie. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2003
  • Yesterday and tomorrow - today: henologische essays on European intellectual history. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2005
History of ideas Geistesgeschichte Parmenides (dialogue) The Republic (Plato) Henology Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henrik Ibsen Integrated Authority File
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