معرفی
Dr. Jan Philipp Schäfer is an academic researcher specializing in Greek studies at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures. His doctoral research produced the first critical edition of Georgios Scholarios' 15th-century commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, filling a significant gap in Byzantine philosophical scholarship.
Schäfer's work examines how late Byzantine scholars adapted and interpreted ancient Greek philosophical texts, particularly Aristotle's ethical treatises. His research reveals Scholarios' methodology of synthesizing earlier commentaries while responding to the intellectual challenges of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
His single major publication represents a comprehensive philological achievement, reconstructing Scholarios' exegetical approach from three 15th-century manuscripts. This work demonstrates how Byzantine scholars preserved and transformed Aristotelian philosophy during the empire's final decades.
