Aetios of Amida

Aëtios von Amida (also Aécio , Aëtius Amidenus ; Antiochenus ; * 502 in Amida , Mesopotamia, † 575 ) studied medicine in Alexandria and became court medicus of Justinian I in Constantinople / Byzantium . His writings are based on older medical works by Pedanios Dioskurides and Galenus .

Fonts

• Tetrabibloi
• Contractae ex veteribus medicinae sermones XVI. Venetiis: Farrea; 1543-44
• Aetii Medici Graeci Contractae ex Veteribus Medicinae Sermones XVI . Venetiis: Gryphius, 1549. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Librorum medicinalium tomus primus, primi scilicet libri octo nunc primum in lucem editi
• Tomus Primus, Secundus, et Tertius de re medica
• Aëtii Amideni Libri medicinales V-VIII. Edited by Alexander Olivieri , Berlin 1950 (= Corpus medicorum graecorum. VIII, Volume 2).
• Max Wegscheider. Obstetrics and gynecology at Aëtios von Amida (book 16 of the collection) . Springer, Berlin 1901 (digitized version)

literature

• Max Neuburger : History of Medicine . Enke, Stuttgart 1911, Volume II, Part 1, p. 104ff (digitized version )
• Wolfgang Wegner: Aetios from Amida. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 16.

Web links

• Literature by and about Aëtios von Amida in the catalog of the German National Library
• Max Wellmann : Aetios 8 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 703 f.
• Greek Medicine from Galen to Aetius ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• http://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/FKT=5006/FRM=MED+VET./LNG=DU/SID=ad5f5ca8-1/SRT=YOP/CLK?IKT=5006&TRM=med + vet.001.022 +% 2F + aetius +% 2F + aetius + amidenus
• http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/AecioAmi.html

Remarks

1. ↑ for books: Latin term for section, volume