Eckart Schutrumpf

Eckart Schutrumpf (Ph.D. Marburg 1966, Habil. 1976) has published widely in American and German journals on political, ethical, rhetorical and poetic issues in Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, and other ancient writers.

He is the author of a translation and commentary in four volumes on Aristotle's Politics (Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1991-2005). Prof. Schutrumpf has published monographs on Aristotle's Poetics (1970) and Politics (1980), on Xenophon's On Revenues (1982), and on "Eric Voegelin's Deutung der aristotelischen Politik " in Order and History (2001). He has co-edited volumes on the Peripatetics Demetrius of Phalerum (1999) and Dicaearchus (2001), and together with P. Crone and D. Gutras on "The Greek Strand in Islamic Political Thought" (2005). His new edition of the fragments of Heraclides Ponticus appeared in the fall of 2007.

In 2010 Prof. Schutrumpf was awarded the Cátedra de Excelencia (Chair of Excellence), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Research Fellowship for 6 months, and in 2012-2013 the Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (Morphomata), University of Cologne for 12 months.

Prof. Schutrumpf was chair of the Classics department from 1987-1994. He received the Boulder Faculty Assembly's Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award in 2002. He was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1999) and a visiting Professor in Trier (2005). Prof. Schutrumpf was a recipient of the Humboldt research prize in 2005 which allowed him to stay for two semesters in Berlin.