Alain Touwaide
Alain Touwaide (born September 19, 1953 in Brussels ) is a Belgian historian of medicine and the natural sciences and currently works at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DC .
His training at the Université catholique de Louvain led to degrees in Classical Philology (1975) and Oriental Philology and History (1977) and PhD (1981). He obtained his “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” (qualification to lead research projects) at the University of Toulouse (1997). He has received numerous awards and grants, including from the Earth Watch Institute , and has taught at several universities in Spain, Italy, Belgium and France.
His main research area is the medicinal plants of antiquity. His approach is transdisciplinary , i.e. not only philological and historical, but also botanical and medical, ethnological and anthropological, and thus represents ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology . In 2005 Touwaide received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a four-year research project “Medicinal Plants of antiquity: a computerized database ”. The therapeutic texts in ancient Greek should be digitized, indexed and analyzed in the original and in translation.
Web links
- Alain Touwaide at the Smithsonian Institution (with description of the current research project and detailed bibliography)
- Short CV (PDF; 35 kB)
Remarks
- ^ Alain Touwaide: L'identification des plantes du Traité de matière médicale de Dioscoride: un bilan méthodologique. In: Klaus Döring , Georg Wöhrle (Hrsg.): Ancient natural science and its reception. I-II, Bamberg 1992, pp. 253-274.
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| SURNAME | Touwaide, Alain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian historian of medicine and science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |