Nelly Tsouyopoulos

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Nelly Tsouyopoulos (born Saveriadou, Greek Νέλλη Τσουγιοπούλου Σαβεριάδου Nelli Tsougiopoulou Saveriadou , born April 13, 1930 in Famagusta , British Crown Colony of Cyprus ; † May 5, 2005 in Oxford ) was a British- German medical historian . She was professor for the history and theory of medicine at the University of Münster and founding rector of the University of Cyprus .

Life

Nelly Tsouyopoulos was born as the daughter of the village school teacher in Famagusta. From 1947 to 1952 she studied Classical Philology , History and Archeology at the University of Athens and then worked as a teacher and social worker in Cyprus. In 1957 she took up a scholarship from the Greek state and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to study philosophy , mathematics and education at the University of Munich . As a student of Kurt von Fritz , she received her doctorate in 1962 with a dissertation on punishment in early Greek thought . From 1967 to 1971 she was a research assistant at the Research Institute for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 1972 she was brought by Richard Toellner to the Institute for the History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster, where in 1979 she worked on the subject of Andreas Röschlaub and Romantic Medicine. The philosophical foundations of modern medicine habilitated and in 1984 received a professorship for the history and theory of medicine. Tsouyopoulos was looking for a decidedly philosophical approach to her subject, as shown not only in her work on the connection between Romantic Medicine (for example also with Johannes Müller ) and philosophy (especially Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ), but above all in her systematic reflections.

At the end of the 1980s, Tsouyopoulos was appointed President of the Founding Senate to found the University of Cyprus, which opened in Nicosia in October 1992 . As a member of the appointment committee, she appointed, among others, the pedagogue Volker Lenhart from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg for the tasks of comparative international educational science. Since 1996 Tsouyopoulos has been a member of the board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies at the University of Münster.

Tsouyopoulos' pupils included Thomas Rütten , Claudia Wiesemann and Urban Wiesing .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Punishment in early Greek thinking . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 1966 (revised dissertation, University of Munich, 1962).
  • Andreas Röschlaub and Romantic Medicine . Fischer, Stuttgart 1982 (habilitation thesis, University of Münster, 1979).
  • Asclepius and the Philosophers. Paradigm shift in medicine in the 19th century (= medicine and philosophy . Vol. 2). Edited by Claudia Wiesemann , Barbara Bröker and Sabine Rogge. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2008.

Essays

  • We owe Asklepios a rooster. From the philosophical concerns of modern medicine . In: Philosophical Review . Vol. 33, 1986, pp. 76-102.
  • Doctors contra clysters and feudalism. The consequences of a romantic revolution . In: Andrew Cunningham , Nicholas Jardine (Eds.): Romanticism and the sciences . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990, pp. 101-118.
  • Schelling's natural philosophy. Sin or inspiration for the physiology reformer Johannes Müller? . In: Michael Hagner and Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.): Johannes Müller and philosophy . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, pp. 65-83.
  • The emergence of medicine as a practical science . In: Journal of Medical Ethics . Vol. 44, 1998, pp. 99-105.
  • La philosophie et la médecine romantiques . In: Mirko D. Grmek (Ed.): Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident . Volume 3, Seuil, Paris 1999, pp. 7-27.
  • Fear of death and longing for immortality . In: Friedrich Niewöhner and Richard Schaeffer (eds.): Immortality (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen. Vol. 86). Harrassowitz in Commission, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 103-113.

literature

  • Claudia Wiesemann : "Iatros philosophos isotheos" - The philosopher, scientific theorist and medical historian Nelly Tsouyopoulos (1930–2005). In: Medical History Journal. Vol. 41 (2006), H. 1, pp. 85-98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urban Wiesing: Nelly Tsouyopoulos: About the life of a philosopher (obituary) (PDF; 22 kB)
  2. ↑ Correspondence of the Educational Science Seminar University of Heidelberg, University Archives Heidelberg, Rep. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Tsouyopoulos, Nelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τσουγιοπούλου, Νέλλη (Greek); Saveriadou, Nelly (maiden name); Σαβεριάδου, Νέλλη (maiden name, Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Famagusta , Cyprus
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2005
Place of death Oxford , England