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Florin George Călian

Florin George Călian (born October 6, 1978) is a Romanian historian of religion and philosophy.[1][2] He is a researcher at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Lucian Blaga University.[3]

Florin George Călian
Born (1978-10-06) 6 October 1978 (age 45)
Bucharest, Romania
EducationUniversity of Bucharest, Central European University
Occupation(s)Historian, philosopher, journalist, essayist
SchoolContinental philosophy
InstitutionsCentral European University
Doctoral advisorGabor Betegh
Main interests
Religious Studies, Ancient Philosophy

Educational background edit

Florin George Călian studied psychology, philosophy and classical languages in Bucharest. He had a MA degree in archeology and Greek-Roman history from the University of Bucharest, and another MA in Medieval studies from Central European University. He obtained his doctoral degree from Central European University, with a dissertation on Plato's ontology of numbers, under the supervision of Gábor Betegh.[4]

Professional background edit

Călian had several research stays at the Departement für Philosophie of Université Fribourg (Switzerland), Trinity College (University of Oxford), Plato Center (Trinity College Dublin), Tübinger Stift (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), New Europe College (Bucharest), Robarts Library (Toronto), Department of Incunabula, Old and Precious Books, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Wien).[5] Together with the philologist Antoaneta Sabău, Florin Călian founded a school for classical and oriental languages: Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages, which is under the administrative stewardship of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.[6] The main languages promoted by the school are: Spoken Latin, Ancient Greek, Sahidic Coptic, Biblical Hebrew and Old Slavonic.[7][8] He published and lectured about platonic[9] and neoplatonic philosophy,[10] classical philology,[11] religious studies,[12][13] sacred spaces,[14] etc. Călian is member of the editorial board of SCHOLÉ. Independent Journal of Philosophy[15] and Review of Ecumenical Studies. As journalist he published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[16] The Armenian Weekly,[17] Capital Cultural,[18] Contributors, etc.

Interviews edit

  • Nicht jeder Spezialist ist auch ein Intellektueller,[19]
  • Philosophy, Research, Classics[20]
  • Studying classical philology (with Antoaneta Sabău)[21]
  • Philosophy today[22]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Marlan, Stanton (2022-04-27). Jung's Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea. Routledge. pp. 22–25. ISBN 978-1-000-57624-5.
  2. ^ Călian, Florin George (2021-12-09). Numbers, Ontologically Speaking: Plato on Numerosity. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-46722-4.
  3. ^ "CCES" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  4. ^ "Successful Defence of Florin George Călian | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  5. ^ "CCES" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  6. ^ "Europas alten Buchstaben auf den Zahn gefühlt". adz.ro. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  7. ^ "Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages – Summer Schools in Europe". www.summerschoolsineurope.eu. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  8. ^ "CCES" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  9. ^ Călian, Florin George (2021-12-09). Numbers, Ontologically Speaking: Plato on Numerosity. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-46722-4.
  10. ^ ""Clarifications" of Obscurity: Conditions for Proclus's Allegorical Reading of Plato's Parmenides". MEMO (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  11. ^ Calian, George F. (April 2021). "RETHINKING THE NEED OF CLASSICS – (C.) Güthenke Feeling and Classical Philology. Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920. Pp. xviii + 223. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-10423-5". The Classical Review. 71 (1): 238–240. doi:10.1017/S0009840X20001468. S2CID 232223602.
  12. ^ Calian, Florin George (2021). "Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things by Joseph Torchia (review)". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 29 (2): 296–298. doi:10.1353/earl.2021.0017. S2CID 235717266. Project MUSE 797085.
  13. ^ Călian, Florin George (2020-04-01). "Mladen Popović, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, and Clare Wilde (eds.), Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 10, Boston-Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 2018, 210 p., ISBN: 978-3-11-059571-0". Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu. 12 (1): 158–169. doi:10.2478/ress-2020-0012. S2CID 219168083.
  14. ^ Călian, Florin George (2021-08-01). "Editorial RES 2/2021". Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu. 13 (2): 139–144. doi:10.2478/ress-2021-0017. S2CID 238206022.
  15. ^ "Editors - SCHOLÉ". www.schole.ro. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  16. ^ Călian, Florin George. "Altes Trauma: Erdogans toxische Re-Islamisierung der Hagia Sophia". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  17. ^ Călian, Florin George (2021-03-25). "The Hagia Sophia and Turkey's Neo-Ottomanism". The Armenian Weekly. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  18. ^ "The Passion of Christ According to Schulze and Leonhard Leid und Hoffnung (Calvary and Hope), a Drama-Passion by Werner Schulze, directed by Teresa Leonhard". Capital Cultural. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  19. ^ "„Nicht jeder Spezialist ist auch ein Intellektueller"". adz.ro. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
  20. ^ Cafeaua de dimineață 09.08.2023. Invitat - Florin George Călian - filosof, cercetător, clasicist, retrieved 2024-03-01
  21. ^ Antoaneta Sabău și Florin George Călian despre Școala „Dan Slușanschi” de Limbi Clasice și Orientale, retrieved 2024-03-01
  22. ^ "Mixcloud". www.mixcloud.com. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
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