Jacques Jouanna

Jacques Jouanna (born May 27, 1935 in Nancy ) is a French Graecist and medical historian .

Jouanna was Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Strasbourg II from 1973 and at the Sorbonne from 1981 to 2004 . Since 1987 he has been head of the URA 1255 "Médecine grecque" of the CNRS and since 1989 Professeur Classe exceptionnelle . In 1997 he was accepted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . Jouanna is responsible for the text-critical editions of the texts of Hippocrates and Galen in the Collection des Universités de France ( Association Guillaume Budé ) . Since 1988 he has been editor of the Revue des Études Grecques .

Jouanna's main areas of work are Greek tragedy and Hippocratic medicine .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Hippocrates. Pour une archéologie de l'école de Cnide. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1974 (thèse de doctorat). Deuxième édition augmentée d'un article (2004) et d'une Postface (2009). Paris, Les Belles Lettres 2009 (Collection d'éudes anciennes, 141). - Review by Cécile Nissen, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.12.20 .
• Hippocrates. Fayard, Paris 1992, 2nd ed. 1995. - Review by Simon Byl, in: Revue d'histoire des sciences 47, 1994, pp. 148-149, (online) .
• Sophocle. Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris 2007. - Review by Brigitte Le Guen, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.10.22 .

Text output

• Hippocrates. La nature de l'homme (édition, traduction et commentaires), 1975
• Hippocrates. Maladies II, t. X, 2 (édition, traduction et commentaires), 1983
• Hippocrates. T. V, 1, Des vents, de l'Art (édition, traduction et commentaires), 1985
• Hippocrates. Ancienne médecine , 1990
• Hippocrates. T. II, 2, Airs, eaux, lieux (édition, traduction et commentaires), 1996

Editorships

• with Antonio Garzya (ed.): Storia e ecdotica dei testi medici greci (Atti del IIe convegno internazionale, Parigi, 24-26 May 1994). Naples 1996.
• with Antonio Garzya (ed.): I testi medici greci. Tradizione e ecdotica - Les textes médicaux grecs. Tradition et ecdotique (Actes du IIIe international colloque de Naples, October 15-17, 1997). Naples 1999.

literature

• La science médicale antique. Nouveaux regards. Études réunies en l'honneur de Jacques Jouanna. Sous la direction de V. Boudon-Millot , A. Guardasole, and C. Magdelaine. Beauchesne, Paris 2007. (pp. 1–18: List of Jouanna's writings on ancient medicine from 1961 to 2006).

Web links

• Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: Jouanna, Jacques (biobibliography, with picture)
• Literature by and about Jacques Jouanna in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)