Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance:

Short History of our Institution

• 1948-05-14: Foundation of the Italian Center for humanist and philosophical studies (Centro Italiano di Studi Umanistici e Filosofici) at Munich
• 1948sqq: Ernesto Grassi (1902-1991) Secretary general to the Centro Italiano and honorary professor for Philosophy of Humanism at Munich University (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
• 1961: Ernesto Grassi appointed regular professor at Munich University.

• 1964: "depersonalisation" of Grassi's professorship.
• 1965: creation of an assistant professor's post and assignation of Munich university money for the acquisition of books and for other tasks.
• 1965-03-17: First book entered in the inventory of our library ( Fonseca's commentary on Aristotle's metaphysics ).
• 1965-05-01: Foundation of the Seminary for Philosophy and Humanist Intellectual history (Seminar für Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte des Humanismus)(first "real" start of our institutional tradition)
• 1967: Foundation of the monograph series Humanistische Bibliothek
• 1971: "emeritatio" of Ernesto Grassi.
• 1971 to 1973: Grassi serves as director ad interim.
• 1973-11-15: Stephan Otto appointed as new head of the institution and regular professor at Munich university.
• 1975: Institution renamed to Institute for humanist intellectual history (Institut für Geistesgeschichte des Humanismus)
• 1985: Institution renamed to Institute for renaissance intellectual history and philosophy (Institut für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance).
• 1997: "emeritatio" of Stephan Otto.
• 1997-2003/2004: Institution directed by Eckhard Keßler .
• 1998-10-21: Start of our WWW-Server .
• 1999-05: Institution renamed to Seminary for renaissance intellectual history and philosophy (Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
• Dec. 2004sqq: Institution directed by Thomas Ricklin .

For somewhat minor, yet not unimportant events in the history of our intitution: you might have a look at the list of milestones reached and/or passed etc. since 1998.

This text has been compiled using the following material:

1. Eckhard Keßler: L'attività di Ernesto Grassi all'università di Monaco di Baviera dalö 1948 al 1974, in: Emilio Hidalgo-Serna & Massimo Marassi (edd.): Studi in memoria di Ernesto Grassi, Napoli [La città del sole] 1996, pp. 225-240.
2. Personen-und-Vorlesungsverzeichnisse (Indexes of persons and lectures) of Munich university.
3. Acts of our institution (for internal use only).

Author: Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn (ua212ac@mail.lrz-muenchen.de)
Document created: 1999-09-20
Last update:2006-12-07