Werner Beierwaltes

Werner Beierwaltes (8 May 1931, Klingenberg am Main – 22 February 2019, Würzburg){{Cite web | url=https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/news/the-repose-of-prof-dr-werner-beierwaltes | title=Prof. Dr. Werner Beierwaltes| date=28 February 2019}} was a German academic best known as a historian of philosophy. His most important areas of specialization were Neoplatonism and German Idealism. He was an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

His many books include Proklos: Grundzuge seiner Metaphysik, Denken des Einen: Studien zur neuplatonischen Philosophie und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte, Eriugena: Grundzuge seines Denkens, Platonismus im Christentum, and Platonismus und Idealismus. He was among the original Editorial Advisors of the scholarly journal Dionysius,{{Cite web | url=https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/classics/journals/dionysius/editorial-board.html | title=Dionysius}} in which English-language examples of his writings may be found.{{Cite web | url=https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/classics/journals/dionysius/i-xix.html | title=Index, Volumes I-XXX}} He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/riph20|title = International Journal of Philosophical Studies}} Quaestio,{{Cite web | url=https://www.brepols.net/series/quaestio | title=Quaestio}} and Anuario Filosófico.{{Cite web | url=https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/anuario-filosofico | title=Anuario Filosófico}} In 1980, he delivered the Saint Augustine Lecture (his topic was Augustine's concept of happiness) at Villanova University, where it is presented annually by the Institute for the Study of Augustine and Augustinian Traditions.{{Cite web | url=https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/provost/institutes/augustinianinstitute/lectures/staugustine.html | title=Saint Augustine Lecture}}

He was a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1986{{Cite web | url=http://www.badw.de/mitglieder/o_mit/Beierwaltes.pdf | title=Die Akademie: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften}} and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.{{Cite web | url=http://www.ria.ie/ | title=Royal Irish Academy}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ria.ie/our-work/membership/member-list.aspx |title=Royal Irish Academy {{!}} Our Work {{!}} Membership {{!}} Members List |website=www.ria.ie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801050315/http://www.ria.ie/Our-Work/Membership/Member-List.aspx |archive-date=2010-08-01}} He was in addition admitted to the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bavarian Order of Merit.

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[http://www.beierwaltes-werner.de/ Official Website]
[https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/classics/journals/dionysius.html Dionysius]
[https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=riph20 The International Journal of Philosophical Studies]
[https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/anuario-filosofico Anuario Filosófico]
[https://www.schwabeonline.ch/schwabe-xaveropp/elibrary/start.xav?start=%2F%2F*%5B%40attr_id%3D%27verw.intelligibel.das.intelligible.intelligibilitat%27%20and%20%40outline_id%3D%27hwph_verw.intelligibel.das.intelligible.intelligibilitat%27%5D Intelligibel, das Intelligible, Intelligibilität]
[https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/provost/institutes/augustinianinstitute/lectures/staugustine/_jcr_content/widgetiparsys/download_8/file.res/as_1980.pdf Regio Beatitudinis: Augustine's Concept of Happiness]
[https://www.pdcnet.org/agstm/content/agstm_1983_0023_0003_0561_0562 Review of Regio Beatitudinis]
[https://www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/beierwaltes-true-self.pdf The True Self]
[https://cambridgecentreforthestudyofplatonism.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/werner-beierwaltes-platonism-in-christianity.pdf Platonism in Christianity]
[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672550210167414 The Legacy of Neoplatonism in F. W. J. Schelling's Thought]
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/werner-beierwaltes-ed-platonismus-in-der-philosophie-des-mittelalters-wege-der-forschung-cxcvii-pp-xiv-534-darmstadt-wissenschaftliche-buchgesellschaft-1969-cloth-dm-4990/781EF07E53DEA7FC684921DF3DE43010 Review of Platonismus in der Philosophie des Mittelalters]
[https://www.pdcnet.org/gfpj/content/gfpj_1994_0017_0001_0083_0100 Epekeina: A Remark on Heidegger's Reception of Plato]
[https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/anuario-filosofico/article/view/38076/32164 In Memoriam Werner Beierwaltes]
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23041385 Unity and Trinity in Dionysius and Eriugena (Werner Beierwaltes and Douglas Hedley)]
[https://brill.com/view/journals/jpt/16/2/article-p115_3.xml?language=en Werner Beierwaltes and the Yearning for Transcendence]
[https://www.blackfriarscambridge.org.uk/2021/01/19/aquinas-lecture-2021-thursday-28-january-4-5-30-pm/ Aquinas Lecture 2021]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-4I8_E9pRQ Yearning for Transcendence: the Christian Platonism of Werner Baierwaltes]
[https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=119393190 Werner Beierwaltes in the Catalogue of the German National Library]
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