Dr. Paul Hullmeine
Research Associate
Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
DFG project "The Philosophical Correspeondence of Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī"
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Research Associate
Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy
DFG project "The Philosophical Correspeondence of Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī"
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Paul Hullmeine is principal investigator of the project The Philosophical Correspondence of Avicenna and al-Bīrūnī, funded by the DFG (2022-2026). He studied Islamic Studies, Arabic Language, and Ancient Philosophy in Berlin, Cairo, and Munich. He was a doctoral fellow on the project "Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus" (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and worked as research assistant for the Arabic and Latin Corpus (JMU Würzburg).
Paul Hullmeine's main research interest is the transmission of ideas from Greek Antiquity to the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages. In particular, he is concerned with premodern natural philosophy and astronomy, and investigates the way in which two of the main authorities in these fields, Aristotle and Ptolemy, were received in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. As part of his research, he also works on codicology and on transcriptions and editions of medieval Arabic texts in order to make them accessible for future research.