Oliver Overwien

Oliver Overwien (* 1971 ) is a German Graecist , Arabist and medical historian .

After studying Classical Philology from 1991 to 1997 at the Ruhr University in Bochum , he received his doctorate there in 2002 in Greek . At the same time, from 1998 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the " A Greek and Arabic Lexicon " at the seminar for Oriental and Islamic Studies. After a year from 2005 to 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate College “Leitbilder der Spätantike” at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , he was a research assistant at the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences from 2006 to 2010 . Since 2010 he has been a research associate in the research program "Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body" within the framework of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Classical Classical Studies and the History of Science.

Research priorities

Overwien mainly works on the history of Greek medicine, especially on Hippocrates and Galen , but also on Diogenes of Sinope in Arabic tradition. In the Graecist area he dedicated a number of small writings to Lukian of Samosata .

Fonts (selection)

• The sayings of the Cynic Diogenes in Greek and Arabic tradition. (Hermes individual publications 92), Stuttgart 2005 (= dissertation, University of Bochum 2002)
• (Ed. With Christian Brockmann , Wolfram Brunschön): Ancient medicine at the intersection of the humanities and natural sciences. International conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the academy project Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum. (Contributions to antiquity 255), Berlin, New York 2009.
• (Ed., Transl., Com.): Hippokrates, De humoribus. (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum I 3.1), Berlin 2014.

Web links

• Personal page at the Humboldt University Berlin