Leonid Zhmud

Leonid Jakowlewitsch Schmud ( English Leonid Zhmud ; Russian Леонид Яковлевич Жмудь ; born June 22, 1956 in Lwow , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian historian of philosophy and science .

Life

After his military service, Zhmud began studying at the Department of Ancient History at Leningrad University in 1977 . After graduating in 1982, he taught at a school for three years. From 1985 to 1987 he was a doctoral candidate at the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1988 he received his Ph.D. in history from Leningrad University. and in 1995 there as a D.Sc. PhD in philosophy. From 1987 on he worked at the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology, currently as a senior researcher. In 1989 he and Lev Lurje founded the first humanistic grammar school in Leningrad , the Classicum Petropolitanum grammar school , where he was headmaster from 1989 to 1990 and deputy headmaster from 1992 to 1996.

From 1990 to 1992 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz , with subsequent stays in the summer months of 1993, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2010. From 1995 to 1996 he was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC Im In winter 1998 he was a visiting fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris . From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , from 2000 to 2001 he was a Fellow of the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine in London , from 2002 to 2003 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , and from 2006 to 2007 a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar .

His research focuses on the pre-Socratics , Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans , early Greek science and medicine, and classical Greek philosophy and religion .

Fonts (selection)

• Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Early Pythagoreanism. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997.
• Plato as Architect of Science? Phronesis 43 (1998), pp. 211-244.
• Revising Doxography: Hermann Diels and his Critics. Philologus 145 (2001), pp. 219-243.
• Reflections on the Pythagorean Question. In: Georg Rechenauer (Ed.): Early Greek thinking. Göttingen 2005, pp. 135–151.
• The origin of the history of science in classical antiquity. De Gruyter, Berlin 2006.
• Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and list of publications (1983 to 2006) (in English, with photography)
• Personal page on the website of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (with photograph)
• Personal page on academia.edu
• Леонид Яковлевич Жмудь (Personal website, in Russian, with photos )