The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany. It was founded in its present form as the Rhein-Universität on 18 October 1818 by Frederick William III,as the linear successor of the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn which was founded in 1777. The University of Bonn offers many undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects and has 544 professors. Its library holds more than five million volumes.
The University of Göttingen,officially the Georg August University of Göttingen,is a public research university in the city of Göttingen,Germany. Founded in 1734 by George II,King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover,and starting classes in 1737,the Georgia Augusta was conceived to promote the ideals of the Enlightenment. It is the oldest university in the state of Lower Saxony and the largest in student enrollment,which stands at around 31,600.
Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent,Belgium. It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands. After the Belgian revolution of 1830,the newly formed Belgian state began to administer the university. In 1930,the university became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium,whereas French had previously been the standard academic language in what was Universitéde Gand. In 1991,it was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from State University of Ghent to its current designation.
The Moralia is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th-13th centuries,traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life,but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Many generations of Europeans have read or imitated them,including Michel de Montaigne and the Renaissance Humanists and Enlightenment philosophers.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize,in short Leibniz Prize,is awarded by the German Research Foundation to "exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research". Since 1986,up to ten prizes are awarded annually to individuals or research groups working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad. It is considered the most important research award in Germany.
Etienne Vermeersch was a Belgian moral philosopher,skeptic,opinion maker and debater. He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium. He is also former Vice-Rector of Ghent University.
George E. McCarthy is a professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier,Ohio,USA.
Annette Zippelius is a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. In 1998 she became a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner. Her research focuses on complex fluids and soft matter –materials that are intermediate between conventional liquids and solids. Examples are glasses,polymeric melts or solutions,gels and foams,but also granular matter. With her research group she aims at elucidating the underlying principles of self-organization that govern their behavior.
Ingrid A.M. Robeyns holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University,Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute.
Maarten Boudry is a Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher and skeptic. He has been a researcher and teaching member of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University since 2006. To date,he has published over 30 articles in various philosophy of science journals.
Georg Busolt was a German historian of Classical history.
Roy Malcolm MacLeod is an American-born historian who has spent his career working in the United Kingdom and Australia. He is a leading specialist on the history and social studies of science and knowledge.
The Göttingen Faculty of Theology is the divinity school at the University of Göttingen,officially denominated the "United Theological Departments" but commonly referred to as the "Theological Faculty" .It was instituted at the foundation of the University,in 1737,along with the three other original faculties of Law,Medicine,and Philosophy. Over the centuries,the Göttingen Faculty of Theology has been home to many influential scholars and movements,including the rise of historical criticism,Ritschlianism,the History of Religions School,and Dialectical Theology. Its members were also involved in the Göttingen School of History.
Florian Steger is a German medical historian and medical ethicist.
Liliane Madeleine Victor Haegeman ARB is a Belgian professor of linguistics at Ghent University. She received her PhD in English linguistics in 1981 from Ghent University,and has written numerous books and journal articles thereafter. Haegeman is best known for her contributions to the English generative grammar,with her book Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (1991) well established as the most authoritative introduction on the Principles and Parameters approach of generative linguistics. She is also acknowledged for her contributions to syntactic cartography,including works on the left periphery of Germanic languages,negation and discourse particles,and adverbial clauses. As a native speaker of West Flemish,her research has also touched upon the comparative study of English and West Flemish in terms of the subject position and its relation to the clausal structure.
Anja Seibert-Fohr is a German jurist and a current judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Tatjana Tchumatchenko is a physicist in the field of theoretical neuroscience. She is an independent Max Planck Group Leader and,since November 2020,professor for Computational Neuroscience of Behavior at the Faculty of Medicine of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Germany). In her research she investigates how neural networks compute and how particular activity patterns emerge from synaptic and neuronal features.
Renan Larue is a French writer,literary scholar and historian of vegetarianism. He is the author of several books on vegetarianism or veganism,including Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2015),a history of vegetarianism from Pythagoras until the modern day,and La pensée végane:50 regards sur la condition animale (2020). In 2016 he offered the first course in vegan studies in the United States at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
Robert Kirstein is a German classical philologist and professor of Latin philology at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
David was a monk,bishop and historian of the Church of the East in the 7th or 8th century.
