Friedemann Drews - Curriculum Vitae#
Subjects studied:
Latin, Ancient Greek, Theology, Comparative Philology and English linguistics, Universities of Rostock and Newcastle upon Tyne (1995-2002; interruption for community service 1996-1997)
Doctorate:
Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (2003-6)
Dr. phil.: summa cum laude, University of Rostock, 2007 (Classics, Latin)
Thesis: Human Free Will and Divine Providence in Augustine, Proclus, Apuleius and John Milton
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christiane Reitz, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bernard
Habilitation:
Doctor habilitatus of Classics, including Higher Education Teaching qualification, University of Rostock, 2010
Thesis: Methexis, Rationality and Mysticism in Dionysius the Areopagite's Ecclesiastical Hierarchy
Oral paper: Réception existentielle. Sophie Scholl's reception of St. Augustine
Employment:
- 2007 - 2008 research associate at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and Freie Universität Berlin, research project: "Die hohe Schule des Platonismus: Der Platonische Parmenides in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Neuzeit" (Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann, née Radke)
- 2008 - 2009 lecturer of Latin (University of Rostock) and teacher of Latin and English at the "Ecolea – Internationale Schule Rostock Warnemünde"
- 2009 - 2014 research assistant at the Heinrich Schliemann-Institut fuer Altertumswissenschaften (Greek section, chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bernard), University of Rostock
- 2014 - 2020 Heisenberg-scholarship of the German Research Foundation at the WWU Muenster, Institute for Classical Philology
- 2018/10 - 2019/09 acting professor of Classical Philology at the University of Osnabrueck (interruption of Heisenberg-grant)
- 2020/02 - 2023/01 principal investigator, funded by the German Research Foundation, research project: "Time-Constitution, psychology, and self-knowledge in Augustine's Confessions", located at the WWU Muenster, Institute for Classical Philology