Gotthard Strohmaier

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Gotthard Strohmaier (born November 4, 1934 in Zwickau ) is a German Arabist , Graecist and medical historian .

life and work

Strohmaier received his doctorate in 1965 with a dissertation on the subject of " The Arabic Galenic script 'On the diversity of homoic parts of the body": Edited, translated and explained for the first time "at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In addition to his work as a research assistant at the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , he is now honorary professor at the seminar for Semitic and Arabic studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 2009 Strohmaier was elected a member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2008 .

His main area of ​​work is Graeco-Arabica , that is, the reception of Greek philosophy , medicine and science in Islamic culture and religion and their continued impact on the European Middle Ages . This includes the indexing and text-critical utilization of medieval Arabic translations of Greek texts. His Avicenna biography, which he dedicated to the Hungarian Prime Minister and medical historian József Antall , received great attention .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Ancient science in an oriental guise , WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2007
  • Avicenna . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 ; 2nd, revised edition, 2006.
  • Hellas in Islam. Interdisciplinary studies on iconography , science and the history of religion . O. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2003
  • From Democritus to Dante . Preserving ancient heritage in Arab culture. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1996 (= Olms Studies. Volume 43).
  • Al-Bīrūnī . In the gardens of science. Selected texts from the works of the Muslim polymath. 2nd, improved edition. Leipzig 1991 (= Reclam Library. Volume 1228).
  • The stars of Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi (Leipzig 1984)
  • Thinker in the empire of the caliphs . Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7609-0447-5 .

items

  • Dura mater - pia mater. The story of two anatomical terms. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal 5, 1970, pp. 201-216.
  • The intellectual and social conditions of the Latin reception of Arabic knowledge , in: Knowledge about borders: Arabic knowledge and the Latin Middle Ages . Ed. V. Andreas Speer, Lydia Wegener, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin 2006, 126–132
  • Reception, propagation et décadence du rationalisme grec en Islam. Essai d'une recherche des causes . In: Scholarly Approaches to Religion, Interreligious Perceptions and Islam , ed. v. J. Waardenburg. Bern 1995 (Studia Religiosa Helvetica 1). 277–292 (reprinted in: Von Demokrit bis Dante ..., pp. 281–296).
  • The legacy of the Greeks in the world of Islam . In: Das Altertum 41, 1996, pp. 189–201.
  • Reception and mediation: medicine in the Byzantine and Arab world . In: The History of Medical Thought. Antiquity and the Middle Ages , ed. v. MD Grmek , Munich 1996, pp. 151-181; Italy. Translated in: Storia del pensiero medico occidentale . 1. Antichità e medioevo, ed. v. MD Grmek, Rom, Bari 1993, pp. 167-215; french Translated in: Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident , ed. v. MD Grmek, Paris 1995, pp. 123-149.
  • The Latin and Syriac-Arabic Reception of Greek Sciences . In: The literature of late antiquity - polyethnic and polyglottic viewed , ed. v. J. Irmscher , Amsterdam 1997, pp. 145-151.
  • The image of Socrates in Arabic literature of the Middle Ages . In: H. Kessler (ed.), Sokrates. Fragments of a portrait (Socrates Studies III), Kusterdingen 1997, pp. 105–124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information Service Science, March 23, 2009
  2. ^ Membership directory: Gotthard Strohmaier. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
  3. Cf. Dag Nikolaus Hasse: Start yourself. Gotthard Strohmaier interprets and criticizes Avicenna . In: FAZ, April 26, 2000.