Jaap Mansfeld

Jaap Mansfeld (born 1936) is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of philosopher and a historian of philosophy.

Life Jaap Mansfeld began his studies in 1954 at the University of Utrecht, where he received his doctorate in 1964 with a thesis on Parmenides. From 1973 until his retirement in 2001 he was a professor of ancient philosophy, and subsequently professor of History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, at Utrecht University. as well as a member of the board for several scholarly journals. A book was published in honour of his 60th birthday in 1996 by Keimpe Algra, Pieter Willem van der Horst, and David T. Runia. In 1998, Mansfeld was awarded the Humboldt research award for his outstanding achievements in research and teaching.

Mansfeld's focus is on doxography, and he has had a thirty-year collaboration with David Theunis Runia on the fragments and testimonia of the doxographer Aëtios.

Select publications

With Oliver Primavesi

Aëtiana : the method and intellectual context of a doxographer. with David Theunis, in five volumes.

Literature