Philip van der Eijk

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Philip J. van der Eijk (* 1962 in Delft ) is a Dutch classical philologist , medical historian and literary scholar .

Life

After visiting the Christelijk Lyceum in Delft, van der Eijk studied Classical Philology at the University of Leiden and received his doctorate there in 1991 with a thesis on Aristotle . The work was published in 1994 under the title Aristotle, De insomniis. De divinatione per somnum . He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Nederlandse Organizatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek until 1994 .

From 1994 onwards, van der Eijk taught and researched at Newcastle University . There he was initially the Wellcome Trust University Award Holder for the history of ancient medicine. In 1998 he was appointed Professor of Greek Studies there, and in 2005 he was appointed Research Professor. In 2006 he conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 2000 to 2001 he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). In 2009 he was a Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford.

In 2010 he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he is doing research in the field of classical philology and the history of science as part of an Alexander von Humboldt professorship .

Van der Eijk has numerous functions in scientific edition series, projects and institutions at home and abroad.

Memberships

Since 2003 he has been a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde and a member of the Council of the Classical Association . Since 2006 he has been a corresponding member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen and a member of the Council of the Hellenic Society . He has been a foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 2011 . On November 30, 2012 van der Eijk was elected a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . Since 2014 he has been a foreign member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen .

Awards

Research priorities

Van der Eijks research focuses on ancient medical history, especially the Greek one (including Hippocrates , Diocles of Karystos and Galen ). In addition, he deals with Greek philosophy (primarily that of Aristotle, but also that of Philoponos ) and early Christian literature ( Nemesios von Emesa ).

In recent years he has also edited translations of various German-speaking authors from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Rainer Maria Rilke , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Georg Trakl , Gottfried Benn and Novalis .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and editorships

  • with HFJ Horstmanshoff and PH Schrijvers (eds.): Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context. 2 vols. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1995.
  • Ancient Histories of Medicine. Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity. Brill, Leiden 1999.
  • (Ed.): Hippocrates in Context. Papers Read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, August 27-31, 2002). Brill, Leiden 2005.
  • Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity. Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2005, online

Text editions and translations

  • Aristotle, De insomniis. De divinatione per somnum. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1994 ( Aristotle, works in German translation )
  • Diocles of Carystus, A Collection of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary. 2 vols. Brill, Leiden 2000-2001.
  • Philoponus, On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2 and 1.3-5. 2 Vols. Duckworth, London 2005-2006 ( Ancient Commentators on Aristotle ).
  • with Robert W. Sharples : Nemesius of Emesa, On the Nature of Man. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) from January 11, 2013 , accessed on January 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Eijk, Philip van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eijk, Philip J. van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Dutch classical philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Delft