- Nikolaus Knoepffler
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Nikolaus Knoepffler (born 1962 in Miltenberg, Bavaria) currently holds the Chair of Applied Ethics and is the Director of the Ethics Center (Ethikzentrum) at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.
Life
Knoepffler studied Philosophy and Theology in Würzburg and Rome (1981–1990) where the Gregorian University awarded him a Licentiate in Theology (1989), in Philosophy (1990), and a doctorate in Theology (1992). He received his habilitation in 1998 and a further doctorate in Political Science in 2004. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Technology, Theology and Natural Sciences (TTN) from 1996 to 2000 and was appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Munich in 1998. He then became Deputy Manager at TTN (2000–02) and received an appointment with the Commission for Bioethics with the Bavarian Government in 2001. In 2002, he was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He was then appointed Professor of Applied Ethics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU), where he also leads the Center of Applied ethics (Ethikzentrum). He is founder of the Global Applied Ethics Network that is mainly involved in research on business ethics. He is the second Vice President of the German Academy for Transplantation Medicine and since 2005 has served as Chair of the Ethic Commission of FSU’s Department of Social and Humanistic Studies. Among other things, he lectured at the “Wissensforum 2007” of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the topic "Kant and the Stock Exchange" and his research specialties include "values and management". He is chair of the foundation “Prize for Sustainable Management of the Ethics Bank”, a subsidiary of Raiffeisenbank Eisenberg in Thuringia.
External links
- Nikolaus Knoepffler's Curriculum Vitae
- Chair of Applied Ethics and Ethics Center Web Page in English
Link to Knoepffler's German language Wikipedia entry
Publications
Categories:- 1962 births
- Living people
- People from Miltenberg
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