Klaus Döring


Klaus Döring is a German classical philologist and philosophical historian.

Life and work

Döring studied Classical philology, philosophy and musicology at the Universities of Kiel, Würzburg, Hamburg and Freiburg from 1957 to 1964. In 1964 he took the first state examination in Greek and Latin. From 1966, he worked at the University of Freiburg, initially in an assistant position. After he received his doctorate in 1970, he became an Academic Assistant. In 1976 he achieved his habilitation in classical philology at Freiburg. From 1978 to 1980 he completed a clerkship at the South Baden higher education authority. In 1980 he was appointed to the academic council of the University of Freiburg.
In 1981, Döring became Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bamberg. In 2003 he retired.
Döring's research focus was ancient Greek philosophy and its contemporary reception. He focused on the various philosophical schools and movements. Until 1999 he was editor of the series with Bernard Herzhoff and Georg Wöhrle.

Selected publications

Die Megariker. Kommentierte Sammlung der Testimonien . Amsterdam 1972.Exemplum Socratis. Studien zur Sokratesnachwirkung in der kynisch-stoischen Popularphilosophie der frühen Kaiserzeit und im frühen Christentum . Wiesbaden 1979.Der Sokratesschüler Aristipp und die Kyrenaiker . Stuttgart 1988.
  • with Hellmut Flashar, George B. Kerferd, Carolin Oser-Grote and Hans-Joachim Waschkies: Die Philosophie der Antike. Band 2,1: Sophistik, Sokrates, Sokratik, Mathematik, Medizin . Basel 1998., Theages. Übersetzung und Kommentar . Göttingen 2004.Die Kyniker . Bamberg 2006.Kleine Schriften zur antiken Philosophie und ihrer Nachwirkung . Stuttgart 2010,.
;Co-edited works
  • with Wolfgang Kullmann: Studia Platonica. Festschrift für Hermann Gundert zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 30. April 1974 . Amsterdam 1974.
  • with Theodor Ebert: Dialektiker und Stoiker. Zur Logik der Stoa und ihrer Vorläufer . Stuttgart 1993.
  • with Michael Erler and Stefan Schorn: Pseudoplatonica. Akten des Kongresses zu den Pseudoplatonica vom 6.–9. Juli 2003 in Bamberg . Stuttgart 2005.