Kahn, Charles H. 1928–

(Charles Henry Kahn)

PERSONAL: Born May 29, 1928, in New Iberia, LA; son of Harold A. and Selma (Mayer) Kahn; married Denise Bouvy, February 10, 1951 (divorced, 1986); married Edna Foa, October 2, 1988; children: Philip A., Maria I. Education: University of Chicago, B.A., 1946, M.A., 1949; attended University of Paris, 1949–50, and Free University of Berlin, 1955; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1958.

ADDRESSES: Home—531 Broad Acres Rd., Penn Valley, PA 19072. Office—Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

CAREER: Columbia University, New York, NY, instructor, 1957–58, assistant professor, 1958–63, associate professor of Greek and Latin, 1963–65; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, associate professor, 1965–68, professor of philosophy, 1968–, department chair, 1975–78. American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, member of managing committee, 1970–, senior research fellow, 1974–75; visiting fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1979–80, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1985; Harvard University, visiting professor, 1995. Military service: U.S. Army, Signal Corps, 1953–55.

MEMBER: PEN American Center, American Philosophical Association, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (president, 1976–78), American Philological Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: University of Chicago exchange fellow in France, 1949–50; Cutting traveling fellow of Columbia University, 1955–56; fellow of American Council of Learned Societies, 1963–64 and 1985; senior fellow of National Endowment for the Humanities, 1974–75 and 1990–91; Guggenheim fellow, 1979–80; visiting scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, 1990; fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000.

WRITINGS:

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1960.

The Verb "Be" in Ancient Greek, D. Reidel (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 1972, reprinted, Hackett Publishing (Indianapolis, IN), 2003.

(Editor) The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1977.

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1997.

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, Hackett Publishing (Indianapolis, IN), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Questions, edited by H. Hiz, D. Reidel (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 1978, and Plato's Cretan City, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1993. Contributor to philosophy and classical studies journals. Coeditor, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1965–79.