| Franz Martin Wimmer |
CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Position: Professor (retired), Department of
Philosophy, University
of Vienna
Born: 1942 in St. Martin bei Lofer, Province of Salzburg,
Austria (parents:
farmers)
Education:
Elementary-School; Agricultural School (until 1961)
Gymnasium (humanistic branch, until 1965)
Jesuit novitiate and studies of philosophy and theology (until 1969,
then withdrawal from the order)
Studies of philosophy and political science at Univ. of Salzburg (Ph.D.
1974)
Assistent Professor at Universities of Salzburg (until 1981) and Vienna
(from 1981)
Inauguration Vienna 1990
Professional activities:
Farm worker (1957-61)
Teaching Assistant (1971-75)
Assistant Professor (from 1975)
Senior Lecturer (from 1997)
Retirement 2008
Teaching activities (selected):
Lecturer of philosophy at the universities of Salzburg, Klagenfurt,
Innsbruck and Vienna
Lectures and Seminars at various institutions of adult education
Visiting professorships:
University of California at Irvine (1980/81)
University of Innsbruck (1993 and 2000)
University of Costa Rica, San José (1995)
University of Bremen (1997)
European Peace University (EPU Austria), Stadtschlaining (1997)
University of Mumbai (Bombay, India, 1998)
Lectures at various universities in: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Czech
Republic, Ethiopia, Germany,
Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Maroc, Portugal,
Slovak Republic, Switzerland, South Africa, Taiwan, Tunisia.
Linguistic abilities:
German (native language)
Latin, Ancient Greek (college, partly rather rusty)
English, Spanish (reading, conversation, writing)
French, Italian (reading, conversation)
Portuguese, Russian, Turkish (reading)
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