Ilsetraut Hadot
Ilsetraut Hadot | |
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| Born | Ilsetraut Ludolff 20 December 1928 Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany |
| Died | 13 April 2026 (aged 97) Limours, France |
| Education | Free University of Berlin Sorbonne University |
| Spouse | Pierre Hadot |
| Awards | Prix François-Millepierres (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of philosophy |
Ilsetraut Hadot (French: [ado]; née Ludolff; 20 December 1928 – 13 April 2026) was a German-born French historian of philosophy who specialised in Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and more generally in ancient philosophy.
Life and career
[edit]Ilsetraut Hadot was born in Berlin, Germany, on 20 December 1928.[1]
In 1978, Hadot won the Victor Cousin prize of the Académie française for her work The problem of Alexandrian Neoplatonism. Hierocles and Simplicius. In 2015, she received the François-Millepierres prize by the Académie for her work Seneca. Spiritual Direction and Practice of Philosophy.[2]
In 1966, she graduated the Dr. Phil. at the Free University of Berlin about Seneca and Spiritual Direction in Antiquity.[3] She defended her State thesis in 1977, a Doctor of Arts at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV).[4]
She met Pierre Hadot during a symposium in Cologne in 1962 and they married in Berlin in 1966.[5] He was also a specialist in ancient philosophy. Together, they wrote Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity, in 2004.[6]
Hadot died on 13 April 2026, at the age of 97.[7]
Research
[edit]Hadot was a classical philologist and a specialist in ancient philosophy. She wrote about Seneca, the history of education in antiquity[8] and Neoplatonism. Hadot edited, commentated and translated the commentary of Simplicius (a Neoplatonic philosopher) on the Enchiridion of Epictetus.
Works
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- Seneca und die Griechisch-Römische Tradition der Seelenleitung, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969, 232p.
- (With Pierre Hadot) Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : L'enseignement du « Manuel d'Épictète » et son commentaire néoplatonicien, ("Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity: the Lesson from Enchiridion of Epictetus and its Neoplatonician Commentary") Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2004, 216 p. ISBN 9782253109358.
- Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique : Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité ("Liberal Arts and Philosophy in Ancient thought: Contribution at the history of education and culture in Antiquity"), Paris, Vrin, 2006, 576 p. ISBN 9782711618231.
- Le Néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines : Un bilan critique (The Neoplatonician Simplicius in light of contemporary researches: a critical appraisal) (with two contributions of Philippe Vallat), Saint Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2014, 309 p. ISBN 9783896656391.
- Le Problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin : Hiéroclès et Simplicius (The Problem of alexandrian neoplatonism : Hierocles and Simplicius), Paris, Études augustiniennes, 1978, 243 p. ISBN 9782851210234.
- Sénèque. Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophie (Seneca. Spiritual Direction and practice of philosophy), Paris, Vrin, 2014, 456 p. ISBN 9782711625697
- Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles, Philadelphia, American philosophical society, 2004, 152 p. ISBN 0-87169-941-9
- Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2015, 188 p. ISBN 9789004280076
Translations and prefaces
[edit]- Seneca, Consolations, Paris, Payot & Rivages, 1992, 140 p. ISBN 9782869305168, translated by Colette Lazam, preface by Ilsetraut Hadot.
- Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories ("Commentary on the Categories"), Leyde, Brill, 1989, Philosophia Antiqua, 240 p. ISBN 9789004090156, translated under the direction of Ilsetraut Hadot.
- Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Introduction & édition critique du texte grec par Ilsetraut Hadot ("Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Introduction & critical edition of the Greek text by Ilsetraut Hadot"), Leyden, New-York, Cologne, Brill, 1996, 479p.
- Simplicius, Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Chapitres I-XXIX ("Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Chapters I-XXIX"), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2001, 314 p. ISBN 9782251004938[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "ISNI 0000000108664774 Hadot, Ilsetraut (1928-)". www.isni.org. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ↑ "Ilsetraut Hadot". www.academie-francaise.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2017..
- ↑ Roger-Pol Droit (9 April 2015). "Traversée. Toujours du neuf chez les Anciens". Le Monde des Livres, Les Cahiers du CERIC (in French). Archived from the original on 8 May 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2017..
- ↑ Hadot, Ilsetraut (1982). "Conférence de Mme Ilsetraut Hadot". Annuaires de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (in French). 95 (91). École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses: 351–354. Retrieved 11 September 2017..
- ↑ La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (in French). Paris: Le Livre de Poche. 2003 [2001]. p. 66. ISBN 978-2-2539-43488.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Jean-Baptiste Marongiu (12 November 2004). "Ilsetraut et Pierre Hadot. Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité". next.liberation.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017..
- ↑ "Décès d'Ilsetraut Hadot". Centre Léon Robin. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Marie-Thérèse Isaac (2007). "Ilsetraut Hadot, Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique. Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité [compte rendu]" (in French). 76 (1). L'Antiquité classique: 433–434. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help). - ↑ Stevens, Annick (2003). "Ilsetraut HADOT (Éd.), Simplicius. Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Tome I. Chapitres I-XXIX" (in French). 72 (1). L'antiquité classique. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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