Max Bergamo
Max Bergamo studied Classics and Philosophy in Padua and Munich and received his PhD in Philosophy and in Greek Philology both from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy) and from Sorbonne University (Centre Léon Robin), with a thesis on the Stoic reception of Heraclitus. He worked as assistant professor in Munich and held research fellowships at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples, at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Centre Jean Pépin), and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (LEM). His main research interests concern Presocratic thought and its afterlife, Hellenistic philosophy (Stoicism in particular), Graeco-Syro-Arabic studies, Coptic Gnostic Studies, doxography, and the history of the classical tradition (e.g. Nietzsche).
He is currently Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow (EU - Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme) and his project is based both at Yale’s NELC Department and at the University of Padua (DiSSGeA), under the supervision of Prof. Dimitri Gutas and Prof. Luciano Bossina respectively. The main objective of the project, entitled “Bridging Greek Philosophy, Christianity, and Islam: An Edition of the Late Antique Testimonies of Heraclitus” (BridgHe), is that of producing the first complete edition of the Late Antique testimonies concerning the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This edition will include a translation of the texts in the various relevant languages (mainly Greek and Arabic, but also Latin, Coptic, and Syriac) and a running commentary of the testimonies. By stressing the remarkable patterns of continuity characterising the philosophical and literary production of research fields such as Greek Philosophy, Christianity, and Islam, the project will also provide the very first in-depth study of the enduring cultural and philosophical importance of the thought and the tenets of Heraclitus in the fundamental period of Late Antiquity.
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