Oùδέvεια and humilitas: Nature and Function of Humility in Iamblichus and Augustine

HANS FEICHTINGER is completing a doctorate at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. His dissertation deals with the presence of Christ as comprehensive and unifying principle in the works of St. Leo the Great. He received his “Diplom in Theologie” from the Universität Passau in 1995, his Licentiate and Diploma in Theology and Patristic Studies from the Augustinianum in 1997 and 2002, and his MA from the Department of Classics of Dalhousie University in 2003. His paper “Doctrinae genus haud leve” on religious and historiographic concepts of Ammianus Marcellinus will appear in Römische Quartalsschrift 98 (2003): 137–61. His address and email are: Collegio Teutonico, Via della Sagrestia, 17, I-00120 Città  del Vaticano, hfeichtinger@virgilio.it.