AOR apl. Prof. Dr. Manfred Kraus
Contact
Wilhelmstraße 36 (Ground floor, Room 14)
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Fon: +49 7071 / 29—74978
E-Mail: manfred.kraus @uni-tuebingen.de
Office Hours
by appointment
Curriculum vitae
- March 2022 Retirement
- 2021 Adjunct Professor for Classics
- 2019 Habilitation in Classics with Special Emphasis on the History of Rhetoric
- 2006 Akademischer Oberrat (senior tenured lecturer)
- 2003 Associate Editor of Rhetorica – A Journal of the History of Rhetoric (Berkeley, USA)
- October 1998 Akademischer Rat (tenured lecturer) at the Seminar for Classical Studies at the University of Tübingen
- 1992-2015 Contributor to Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, Tübingen
- 1982-1992 Assistant Professor at the Classics Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
- 1984 Dr. phil. in Greek with a thesis on “Name und Sache. Ein Problem im frühgriechischen Denken” (“Name and Object: A Problem in Early Greek Thinking”).
- 1983 M.A. in Greek, Latin and Medieval German Literature
- 1982 Secondary School Teaching Qualification in Greek, Latin and German Literature.
- 1975-1982 Academic Studies of Greek, Latin and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Oxford University (Brasenose College).
- 1974 Graduation from Secondary School
- Born May 1, 1955 in Passau (Bavaria)
Appointments and Awards
- 2017-2019 President International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric
- 2014-2016 Vice-President Chinese Rhetoric Society of the World
- 2013-2015 President International Society for the History of Rhetoric
- 2011-2013 Vice President International Society for the History of Rhetoric
- 2010-2011 Residential Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC, USA
- 2009 Research Fellowship of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
- 2003-2007 Member of Executive Council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Memberships in Professional Associations
- Mommsen-Gesellschaft (since1984)
- International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR, since1995)
- International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT, since1997)
- International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA, since 2000)
- International Plato Society (IPS, since 2003)
- Rhetoric Society of America (RSA, since 2008)
- Renaissance Society of America (RSA, since 2008)
- Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT, since 2009)
- Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA, since 2010)
- Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE, since 2011)
- Chinese Rhetoric Society of the World (CSRW, since 2012)
- Organización Iberoamericana de Retórica (since 2014)
- International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric (ISSJR, since 2017)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica (SBR, since 2018)
Research Interests
- Greek Philosophy, especially Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle
- Philosophy of Language in Antiquity
- Poetics und Aesthetics of Greek Tragedy
- Theory and Practice of Ancient Rhetoric and its Aftermath in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era
- Theory of Argumentation
- Reception of Ancient Progymnasmatic Manuals in Early Modern Times
Current Research Projects
- A narratological poetics of Greek tragedy
- Early Modern reception of Eleatic philosophy
- Collection and bibliogaphical recording of traceable Neo-Latin translations of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata
- Commented German translation of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata
- Monograph on the early modern aftermath of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata; possibly with critical edition of the translation with scholia and extended examples by Reinhard Lorich (1542, 1546)
- New German translation of Demosthenes, Or. 27-41
- Edition and commented German translation of Galfrid of Vinsauf’s Poetria Nova
- New German translation of the Rhetoric to Alexander
Other Scholarly Activities
Membership in Editorial Boards:
- Papers on Rhetoric (Bologna, Italy)
- International Studies in the History of Rhetoric (Leiden, Netherlands)
- New Handbook of Argumentation Theory (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- International Rhetoric Studies (Beijing, PR China)
- Korean Journal of Rhetoric (Seoul, Korea)
- Argumentation et analyse du discours (Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Revista Española de Retórica (Madrid, Spain)
Reviewer for Periodicals:
- Argumentation (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Informal Logic (Windsor, ON, Canada)
- Renaissance Studies (Oxford, UK)
- Rhetorica (Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- eTopoi. Journal of Ancient Studies (Berlin)
- Historia Einzelschriften (Berlin)
- Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (Berlin)
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Argumentation and Advocacy (Urbana, IL, USA)
Referee for International Research Funds:
- Institut Universitaire de France (Paris, France)
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (Rome, Italy)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, DC, USA)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Den Haag, Netherlands)
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Brussels, Belgium)
Referee and Jury Member in International Doctoral and Habilitation Examinations:
- Aarhus Universitet (Denmark)
- Université Paris-Est Créteil (France)
- Université de Strasbourg (France)
- Université Paul Valéry Montpellier (France)
- Université de Paris Sorbonne (France)
- École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France)
- Lunds Universitet (Sweden)
- Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
- Tartu Ülikool (Estonia)
List of Publications
My list of publications can be downloaded here as a pdf-file.