Hermann Grensemann

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Hermann Grensemann (born December 31, 1932 in Emden ; † January 30, 2015 in Henstedt-Ulzburg ) was a classical philologist and medical historian. From 1974 to 1998 he was professor for the history of medicine at the University of Hamburg .

After graduating from high school at the humanistic grammar school in Emden, Grensemann studied classical philology, Italian and medical history in Göttingen , Florence and Kiel from 1954 to 1960, and in 1960 he started a new edition of the Hippocratic writing De octimestri partu at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, which was supervised by Hans Diller to the Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant from 1960 to 1966, most recently as research assistant at the Hippokrateslexikon and research assistant at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Hamburg. In 1971 the habilitation for the history of medicine followed with a thesis on Knidische medicine in the Corpus Hippocraticum .

The focus of his research was the medicine of antiquity and the Latin Middle Ages, in particular the research and reconstruction of Greek and Latin texts (Corpus Hippocraticum, Galen von Pergamon) and the school of Salerno . He worked at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf .

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor and translator: Hippokrates About eight-month children / About the seven-month child (fake). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968 (= Corpus Medicorum Graecorum . Vol. I 2,1)
  • The doctor Polybos as the author of Hippocratic writings. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden), Mainz 1968 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class . Year 1968, No. 2).
  • as editor and translator: The Hippocratic text "About the holy disease". Berlin 1968 (= Ars medica. Texts and investigations on the study of sources in ancient medicine. Series of publications by the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin. II. Department: Greek-Latin Medicine. Vol. 1).
  • Knidic Medicine Part I. The testimony of the oldest Knidic doctrine and analyzes of Knidic writings in the Corpus Hippocraticum . Berlin 1975 (= Ars medica. 2. Dept. Vol. 4.1).
  • Hippocratic Gynecology. Author C's gynecological texts based on the pseudohippocratic writings De muliebribus I, II and De sterilibus . Wiesbaden 1982.
  • Knidische Medizin Part II. Attempt to further analyze layer A in the pseudohippocratic writings De natura muliebri and De muliebribus I and II . Stuttgart 1987 (= Hermes individual fonts. Issue 51).
  • Hippocrates: De aeribus aquis locis . Interlinear edition of the late Latin translation and the fragment of a high medieval translation. Bonn 1996.
  • The writing 'De adventu medici ad aegrotum' after the Salernitan doctor Archimatheus. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 233-251.
  • (with Ursula Weisser) Iparchus Minutientis alias Hipparchus Metapontinus . Investigations into a high medieval Latin translation by Nemesios von Emesa, De natura hominis , Chapter 5: De elementis with an interlinear edition of the text and the Greek-Arabic translation template. Bonn 1997.
  • Natura sit nobis semper Magistra. On dealing with patients, the diet for acute illnesses, sterility of men and women, eye disorders. Four medieval fonts. Lit, Hamburg 2001 (= Hamburg studies on the history of medicine. Volume 2), ISBN 3-8258-5081-1 ( Google book preview ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salerno project: Edition of writings by medieval Salernitan doctors ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uke.de
personal data
SURNAME Grensemann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2015
Place of death Henstedt-Ulzburg