Christoph Helmig, born in 1973, studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Münster and Trinity College Dublin. 1998-2000 he was Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition in Dublin.

He received a Master of Letters in Classics at Dublin with a study on Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta in 2001 and "Magister Artium" and "First State Exam" in Münster in 2002.

In 2006 he received his PhD in Philosophy (Leuven); title of the dissertation "Ideas and Concepts. Proclus' Theory of Knowledge between Platonic Recollection and Aristotelian Abstraction".

Since 2008 Christoph Helmig is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.




• Platonism in Antiquity
• Ancient Theories of Concept Formation
• Space (topos) in Neoplatonism
• Ancient Commentators on Aristotle (Method and Metaphysics)

• since fall 2009: Co-Director of the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy with Jonathan Beere

• since April 2009: coordinator of the Junior Research Group "Place, Space and Motion" at the Excellence Cluster Topoi.

• since 2008: Academic Coordinator of the Graduate School

• since 2006: Member of the Academia Platonica (Münster)

Neue Forschungen zum Neuplationismus (1995-2003), Teil I und II, in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie (together with C. Steel) 2004.

Proclus: Fifteen Years of Research (1990-2004). An Annotated Bibliography, in: Lustrum (research survey, together with P. d’Hoine, C. Macé, L. Van Campe, under the direction of C. Steel) 2005.

Plato's Arguments against Conceptualism – Parm. 132b3-c11 reconsidered", Elenchos 28 (2007), 303-336.

Platonic Stoicism – Stoic Platonism. The Dialogue between Platonism and Stoicism in Antiquity, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007. [together with Bonazzi, contains contributions by B. Inwood, B. Sharples, C. Gill, T. Tieleman, R. Chiaradonna, G. Reydams-Schils]

Proclus and other Neoplatonists on Universals and Predication, in: Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 2008.

The Truth can never be refuted. Syrianus' View(s) on Aristotle reconsidered, in: A. Longo (ed.), Syrianus et la métaphysique de l’antiquité tardive, Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2009.

More information is available on Christoph Helmig's personal webpage.