Sten Ebbesen

Sten Ebbesen (b. 1946) is a scholar of ancient and medieval philosophy, esp. medieval logic. Greek (ancient and modern) and Latin phonology and morphology. He has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research, and has numerous publications, including many editions of medieval philosophical texts (mostly Latin, some Greek).

Ebbesen teaches classics and medieval philology and philosophyat the Department of Greek and Latin at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Director of the Institute for Greek and Latin 1992-99. Previously (1982-86 and 1989-91) director of the Institute of Greek and Latin Medieval Philology, which in 1992 was fused with the Institute of Classics to form the present institute.

He has been Editor-in-chief of Corpus Philosophorum Danicorum Medii Aevi since 1982. Editor of Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin since 1982. Editorial adviser for Medieval Philosophy and Theology and Didascalia. Member of Société Internationale pour l'étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (since 1992 member of the board, chairman of the trivium commission since 1982); of Platonselskabet, Det danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, Society for Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy, Dansk Selskab for Oldtids- og Middelalderforskning (president 1990-93), The Buridan Society (secretary since 1986). Fellow of Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (= The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters) since 1989; member of the Academy's commission on research policies since 1989-99.

He has degrees in classics (MA 1972) and Modern Greek (BA 1968). Dr. phil., Univ. of Copenhagen, 1981.

Works

• Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction : Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen November 2008
• Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th centuries : Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen October 2008, Hardcover
• Cahiers De L'institut Du Moyen-age Grec Et Latin March 2006, Paperback
• Cahiers De L'institut Du Moyen-age Grec Et Latin March 2006, Paperback
• Cahiers De L'institute Du Moyen-age Grec Et Latin April 2005, Paperback
• Geschichte Der Sprachtheorie by Peter Schmitter, Sten Ebbesen, January 2005, Book
• John Buridan and Beyond : Topics in the Language Sciences, 1300-1700 by Sten Ebbesen, Russell L. Friedman January 2004, Book
• Cahiers De L'lnstitut Du Moyen-age Grec Et Latin (Editor) January 2003, Paperback
• Sprachtheorien in Spatantike Und Mittelalter January 1995, Book
• De Ortu Grammaticae : Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Memory of Jan Pinborg by Konrad Koerner (Editor), Jan Pinborg (Editor), G.L. Bursill-Hall, G.L. Bursill-Hall (Editor), Sten Ebbesen, Sten Ebbesen (Editor), E. F. K. Koerner (Editor) August 1990, Hardcover
• De Ortu Grammaticae : Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Memory of Jan Pinborg by Konrad Koerner (Editor), Jan Pinborg (Editor), G.L. Bursill-Hall, G.L. Bursill-Hall (Editor), Sten Ebbesen, Sten Ebbesen (Editor), E. F. K. Koerner (Editor) August 1990, Hardcover
• Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy : Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.) by Simo Knuuttila, Sten Ebbesen, International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, Reijo Tyorinoja January 1990, Book
• Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy : Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (S.I.E.P.M.) by Simo Knuuttila, Sten Ebbesen, International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, Reijo Tyorinoja January 1990, Book
• Simon of Faversham : Quaestiones Super Libro Elenshorum April 1984, Paperback
• Medieval Semantics : Selected Studies on Medieval Logic and Grammar with Jan Pinborg January 1984, Book
• Commentators and Commentaries on Aristotle's Sophistici Elenchi : A Study of Post-Aristotelian Ancient and Medieval Writings on Fallacies January 1981, Book
• Incertorum Auctorum Quaestiones Super Sophisticos Elenchos January 1977, Book
• Lrebog I Moderne Grsk January 1970, Book