Prof. Dr. Michael Frede

Professor of the History of Philosophy, Oxford University

Prof. Michael Frede is recognized as one of the most distinguished experts in ancient philosophy in the world. He earned his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1966 and held the post of Wissenschaftlicher Assistent there from 1966 to 1971. Prof. Frede taught in the Department of Philosophy at Berkeley till 1976. In 1976, he left Berkeley to teach at Princeton; he returned to Europe in 1991 to take the chair in the History of Philosophy at Oxford University, Keble College.

Prof. Frede is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected publications:

• Die stoische Logik, Göttingen, 1974
• Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford, 1987
• M. Frede, G. Striker (eds.) Rationality in Greek Thought, Oxford, 1996
• P. Athanassiadi, M. Frede (eds.) Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity, Oxford, 1999