Dag Nikolaus Hasse

Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Chair of the History of Philosophy (Chair III) at the Institute of Philosophy, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, is a leading scholar in Greco-Arabic-Latin philosophical traditions. He directs the Arabic and Latin Corpus Project and the Center for Philology and Digitality. His research spans medieval science, Renaissance cultural polemics, and Islamic-Western intellectual exchange.

• Doctorate from the University of London (1997)
• Habilitation at Freiburg (2005)
• Academic positions in Göttingen, Yale, Warburg Institute, Tübingen

His research focuses on Arabic influence in Europe, 12th-16th-century philosophical transmission, and DFG-funded projects on Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes and Averroes' Metaphysics. The 15 most recent publications analyze Arabic-Latin textual traditions, Renaissance translation motivations, and environmental philosophy in medieval commentaries.

Key awards include the 2016 Leibniz-Preis and 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. He has supervised 13 PhDs on topics from Ptolemaic astronomy to Syriac translations, and actively engages public discourse through media interviews and ARD Alpha lectures.