Philippe Mudry

Philippe Mudry (* 1939 ) is a Swiss classical philologist .

Life

Philippe Mudry obtained his License en Lettres from the University of Lausanne in 1964. From 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome . He was a lecturer at the University of Geneva . After receiving his doctorate in Lausanne in 1982 with a thesis on the Latin medicine writer Celsus , he became a full professor of Latin languages and literatures at the University of Lausanne in 1983 .

Mudry is a specialist in ancient medicine , especially for texts in Latin (besides Celsus, for example Caelius Aurelianus ).

La Préface du De Medicina de Celse. Texts, traduction et commentaire. Institut Suisse, Rome 1982 (Bibliotheca Romana Helvetica, XIX).
as editor: Le traité des Maladies aiguës et de Maladies chroniques de Caelius Aurelianus. Nouvelles approches. Actes du colloque de Lausanne 1996 . Nantes 1999, ISBN 2-86939-148-X .
as editor with Olivier Bianchi and Olivier Thévenaz: Conceptions et représentations de l'extraordinaire dans le monde antique. Actes du colloque international, Lausanne, 20–22 mars 2003 . Bern 2004, ISBN 3-03910-433-0 .
as editor: Nova stvdia latina lavsannensia. De Rome à nos jours . Lausanne 2004, ISBN 2-940331-04-9 .
Medicina, soror philosophiae. Regards sur la literature et les textes médicaux antiques (1975-2005) . Lausanne 2006, ISBN 2-9700536-0-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mudry, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1939