Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (born June 23, 1948 in Meißen , Saxony ) is a German classical philologist , medical historian and lecturer at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

After studying classical philology and English in Munich, Berlin and Edinburgh, Fischer received his doctorate in Berlin in 1980 and worked from 1976 to 1987 as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin . The habilitation was completed in 1986. Since 1987 Fischer has been teaching at the Medical History Institute, which has been called the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine since 2004. Fischer held various visiting professorships and has been an expert on medical and veterinary texts at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since 1981 and a member of the research focus GDR 734 of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) since 1982 . In addition, Fischer organizes the Old Medicine working group in Mainz .

His main research interests are medicine in early medieval manuscripts (identification and indexing) and medical lexicography .

Fonts (selection)

• On the development of the medical status in the Roman Empire. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal 14, 1979, pp. 165-175.
• The pseudogalenic Liber tertius . In: Galenismo e Medicina tardoantica. Fonti greche, latine e arabe. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Siena 2002 , a cura di Ivan Garofalo e Amneris Roselli. Napoli 2003 (= Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. Quaderni, Vol. 7), pp. 101-132
• Praenostica - The reception of the prognosticons in the early Middle Ages . in: La science médicale antique: nouveaux regards , publiés en l'honneur de Jacques Jouanna par Véronique Boudon-Millot , Alessia Guardasole et Caroline Magdelaine, Paris 2008, 183–220
• Article Pelagonius Saloninus . in: Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World , ed. By Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, English Edition, Editor-in-Chief Christine F. Salazar, Antiquity vol. 10, Leiden-Boston 2007, col. 691f.
• The acharistum in a manuscript from the library of Nicholas of Cues , in: Asklepios. Studies in Ancient Medicine , ed. Louise Cilliers, Bloemfontein 2008 (Acta Classica. Supplementum 2), 74-85
• Article Mulomedicina Chironis . in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. The Greek tradition and its many heirs , ed. By Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie, London - New York 2008, 564-565
• A Mirror for Deaf Ears? A medieval mystery . In: electronic British Library Journal (eBJ) 2008, article 9

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Dietrich Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus-Dietrich Fischer at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Mainz ( Memento from July 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )