Christian Brockmann

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Christian Brockmann (born May 25, 1960 in Bremen ) is a German classical philologist and medical historian .

Life

Brockmann began studying Latin and Philosophy in 1978 at the University of Kiel . In 1979 he moved to the University of Göttingen and took up Greek as a third subject; In 1982 he moved to the Free University of Berlin , where he passed the first state examination in 1986. From 1986 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Middle Latin Philology at the Free University of Berlin and did his doctorate (from 1986 to 1988 as a scholarship holder of the university), which he achieved in 1990. His dissertation, The Handwritten Tradition of Plato's Symposium , was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize in 1991 and was published in 1993.

After receiving his doctorate, Brockmann worked as a research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology and in the Aristotle Archive of the Free University of Berlin until 1997. In 1997 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (until 2001). After substitute semesters at Rice University (2000) and at the University of Hamburg , Brockmann completed his habilitation in 2002 with the font Aristophanes and the freedom of comedy at the Free University of Berlin and became a research assistant at the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . From 2005 to 2007 he was the company's job manager. In December 2007 he accepted a professorship for Greek Studies at the University of Hamburg.

Publications

Monographs (selection)

  • The handwritten tradition of Plato's Symposium. Serta Graeca 2. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-88226-554-X .
  • Aristophanes and the freedom of comedy. Investigations on the early pieces with special consideration of the "Acharn". Contributions to antiquity 180. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-77729-9 .

Articles (selection)

  • On the tradition of the Aristotelian Magna Moralia. In: Symbolae Berolinenses. F. Berger, Chr. Brockmann et al. (Eds.). Hakkert, Amsterdam 1993, ISBN 978-90-256-1047-0 , pp. 43-80.
  • The Hippocratic writings "De fracturis" and "De articulis" in the cultural context of the 5th century. In: La science médicale antique: nouveaux regards. Publié en l'honneur de Jacques Jouanna. V. Boudon-Millot , A. Guardasole, C. Magdelaine (Eds.). Beauchesne, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-27-010-1514-9 , pp. 119-137.
  • Medicine and body imaging, on the rediscovery of ancient surgery in the Renaissance. In: Laocoon in Literature and Art. D. Gall, A. Wolkenhauer (Eds.). Contributions to antiquity 254. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-173832-1 , pp. 146–159.
  • Health promotion at Galen. In: Ancient medicine at the intersection of the humanities and natural sciences. Chr. Brockmann, CW Brunschön, O. Overwien (ed.). Contributions to antiquity 255. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020121-5 , pp. 141–154.
  • "The name Galen was great" - moments of the self-portrayal of a doctor in his scientific works. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal 44, 2009, ISSN  0025-8431 , pp. 109–129.
  • Manuscript analysis and edition II. Further examples from Galen's commentary on Hippocrates "De articulis". In: Officina Hippocratica. Contributions in honor of A. Anastassiou and D. Irmer. L. Perilli, Chr. Brockmann et al. (Eds.). Contributions to antiquity 289. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-173200-8 , pp. 329–343.
  • Manuscript and text research today: on the transmission of Greek literature; Festschrift for Dieter Harlfinger on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95490-050-3 .
  • In praise of Asclepius: selected prose hymns - Aelius Aristides; introduction, text, translation and interpretative essays by Christian Brockmann et al. DA Russell, M. Trapp, H.-G. Nesselrath (ed.). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-16-153659-5 .

Editorships (selection)

  • together with F. Berger u. a .: Symbolae Berolinenses for Dieter Harlfinger. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1993, ISBN 978-9-025-61047-0 .
  • together with CW Müller, CW Brunschön: Doctors and their interpreters. Medical specialist texts from antiquity as a research topic in classical philology. Contributions to antiquity 238.Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-77850-6 .
  • together with CW Brunschön, O. Overwien: Ancient medicine at the intersection of the humanities and natural sciences. International conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the academy project "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum". Contributions to antiquity 255. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020121-5 .
  • together with L. Perilli, K.-D. Fischer, A. Roselli: Officina Hippocrata. Contributions in honor of A. Anastassiou and D. Irmer. Contributions to antiquity 289. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022124-4 .
  • together with K. Alpers, D. Harlfinger: From Homer and Aristotle to Neo-Platonism: Greek manuscripts in north German collections; Catalog for the exhibition in the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, September 24th - December 1st, 2013 on the occasion of the 8th International Colloquium on Greek Paleography, University of Hamburg, September 22nd - 28th, 2013. Institute for Greek and Latin Philology, Univ. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043358-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen