Heinrich von Staden (medical historian)

Heinrich von Staden (born March 2, 1939 ) is a German-American classical philologist as well as science and medical historian .

After studying at Yale , Vienna and Tübingen , which von Staden graduated with a doctorate in Tübingen in 1968, he taught at Yale University from 1968 to 1998 , most recently as William Lampson Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature (1997–1998). Since then, von Staden has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Von Staden is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (since 1995), an external member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (since 2004), and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . He was President of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques (FIEC) from 2009. In 1997 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His main areas of work are ancient philosophy and the history of medicine - currently in particular the Hellenistic pioneer of the human section , Erasistratos  - the relationship between nature ( phýsis ) and art ( téchne ) in ancient natural science and medical ethics in ancient Greece and Rome. The authoritative edition of the doctor Herophilos of Chalcedon, practicing and researching in Alexandria , comes from him .

Fonts

• Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation, and Essays. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web link

• Heinrich von Staden at the Institute for Advanced Study

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2008 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022160-2 , p. 48 .
2. ^ Fellows: Heinrich von Staden. Britsh Academy, accessed January 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Member History: Heinrich von Staden. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 28, 2019 (annotated).