Evelina Miteva, PI

Evelina Miteva is the principal investigator of the project “Human Being as a Cross-Point: The Beginnings of the Modern Concept of Man in the Middle Ages” (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2351). Evelina Miteva is a specialist on the 13th century author Albert the Great. She currently works on various topics of natural philosophy such as embryology, twins, pygmies, and their ethical and epistemological implications.

Amalia Soos, postdoc

Amalia Soos was involved in the project from its start until February 2019. She worked on the notion of human being and human nature in René Descartes.

Vlad Ile, PhD

Vlad Ile is a co-tutela PhD student t the universities of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Tours (France). Within the project Vlad Ile worked on Albert the Great and the relation of metaphysics and natural philosophy, focusing on problems like e.g. the physiological basis of the intellectual activity. Vlad Ile translated from Latin into Romanian extensive texts by Albert the Great (selected parts from De homine), dealing with the intellect. Vlad Ile was employed in the whole course of the project (June 2018- April 2020).

Lars Reuke, Phd

Lars Reuke is a PhD student of the University of Cologne. Lars Reuke works on the 17th century philosopher and physicist Fortunio Liceti and his reception of Albert the Great’s natural philosophy. Lars Reuke collaborated in the project for its entire duration.

Alexandra Baneu, postdoc

Alexandra Baneu joined the project in April 2019. Within the “PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2351 Human Being as a Cross-point: the Beginnings of the Modern Concept of Man in the Middle Ages” grant Alexandra Baneu is studying the impact that Albert the Great and his natural philosophy had on the 15th century author Pelbartus of Themeswar, especially on the second volume on the Aureum sacrae theologiae Rosarium. The interest of this research lies in the fact that an author such as Pelbartus, who mainly follows Scotist thinkers in theological matters, could not write about subjects pertaining to natural philosophy without invoking Albert the Great, such was the influence of this thinker. This research will materialize into two studies: one of them following a statistical-quantitative approach and trying to see how much Albert is explicitly invoked as opposed to other authors; the other will analyze the manner in which Pelbartus talks about the concept of “Human being” in the “Homo” entry of the second volume of his Rosarium. The other aspect of her work focuses on reviewing the translation into Romanian, which is being done by Vlad Ile, of fragments pertaining to Albert the Great that refer to the human intellect, and that are to be published as a bilingual edition.

Marilena Panarelli, postdoc

Marilena Panarelli joined the project in December 2019. She works on the natural philosophy and physiology of Albert the Great and his sources. Her special focus is on the plants.