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Place of Birth: LĂĽneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Thomas Leinkauf
- Thomas Leinkauf (born November 4, 1954 in Lüneburg) is a German philosopher and a professor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
- His fields of interest are late antique, Renaissance and early modern philosophy, as well as Idealism.In 1974, he graduated at the "humanistic" branch of Markgrafen-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe.
- From 1975 to 1984 he studied philosophy (with Werner Beierwaltes), art history, and history, at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Afterwards, from 1982 to 1985, he was a Research associate at Freiburg university and then, from 1985 to 1991, at FU Berlin, where he also obtained He obtained a Dr.
- phil.
- degree with a dissertation entitled Kunst und Reflexion.
- Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis Philipp Otto Runges zur philosophischen Tradition in 1982.
- Afterwards, from 1982 to 1985, he was a Research associate at Freiburg university and then, from 1985 to 1991, at FU Berlin, where he also obtained his habilitation in 1991, with the thesis Mundus combinatus.
- Studien zur Struktur der barocken Naturphilosophie unId Universalwissenschaft am Beispiel Athanasius Kirchers SJ (1602–1680).
- From 1991 to 1996, he held a "Heisenberg-Professur" there.
- In addition to this, he was a visiting professor at Charles University in Prague in winter semester 1992/93 and the summer semester 1993.
- Since 1996, he is a professor for philosophy at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität and director of the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle in Münster, a branch of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities dedicated to editing the philosophical manuscripts of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- From 2010 to 2012, he received an Opus magnum scholarship for the work on his two-volume work Philosophie des Humanismus und der Renaissance.
- Furthermore, he is the editor of a bilingual Italian-German edition of the works of Giordano Bruno.
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