User:JohnD'Alembert

Hi, I'm a UK academic specializing in the history of ancient Greek philosophy and science, and do the occasional Wikipedia article on obscure, neglected subjects.


 * Translated, revised, and expanded articles from the Wikipedia in German (4), French (1), and Swedish (1, with help of Google Translate).
 * Created or thoroughly revised 4 articles (1 of which has been assessed a 'Good Article').

-- 2016 added section 'Plotinus's Relation to Plato' to article on Plotinus

-- 2016 translated the article on Plato's unwritten doctrines from the German Wikipedia.

-- 2016 revised and expanded the article on Harold F. Cherniss (1904-1987), historian of ancient Greek philosophy.

-- 2015 translated and expanded the article Jean de Serres (1540-1598, Plato scholar, etc.) from the French Wikipedia to try out Wikipedia's beta translation software.

-- 2015 translated the article E. N. Tigerstedt (1907–1979, Plato scholar, etc.) from Swedish Wikipedia and added section on his Plato scholarship

-- 2015: created the page Allegorical interpretations of Plato

-- 2015: translated the article on the Pseudo-Platonic Horoi from the German Wikipedia.

-- 2015: for history of science article on Al-Khazini, created wikimedia pdf and added links

-- 2014: translated the article Martin Schanz (1842–1914, classicist) from the German Wikipedia.

-- 2014: created the article Charles Graux (classicist) (1852–1882)

-- 2014: removed mistaken assertions that Charles Graux (politician) was the same as

the classicist from the English, German, and Dutch articles

-- 2014: translated the article Theodor Birt (1852–1933, classicist) from the German Wikipedia and

added some new sections

-- 2014: revised, expanded, and updated the article on stichometry,

(deleted old material copied from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica)