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Alberto Jori (born 1965), baron, is an Italian Neo-Aristotelian philosopher.
Born in Mantua, on his father's side he is the descendant of an old noble Swiss family of barons (Freiherren) from Ticino and patricians from Zurich [1]. On his mother's side he is related to a long Jewish line of Mantuan Rabbis, from which the famous kabbalist Solomon Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea [2] was also a member. He studied in Padua, Cambridge and Heidelberg and received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2003 he won with his book on Aristotle the Prize of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences - International Academy of the History of Science (Paris, Sorbonne).[3][4] He is professor for philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany,[5] and is an exponent of the School of "Practical Philosophy". He is member a of the following academic institutions: "Accademia Ambrosiana"[6], "Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana"[7], and "International Academy of the History of Science" and is also co-founder of the "Academia Judaica/'Tarbut' - International Academy of Jewish Studies".
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