Rufus of Ephesus

Ouvres , 1879

Rufus of Ephesus (* around 80 in Ephesos , † around 150) was a Greek doctor and medical writer. He lived in the Roman Empire around the time of Emperor Trajan (98–117).

Life

Rufus was born in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor. He probably benefited from a very good education and he was supposed to become part of the intellectual elite there. It can be assumed that he studied in Alexandria , one of the most prestigious centers of science and medicine at the time .

In his views Rufus followed Hippocrates , whose teaching he adapted to his own ideas. He became famous because of his precise observations and his clinical work.

Rufus wrote numerous writings on various medical topics, some of which have been lost. Writings about body parts, about urology , about joint diseases , about the pulse theory and the anamnesis have been preserved . Rufus is one of the most important doctors of his time , alongside Soranos of Ephesus and Galen of Pergamon .

Editions and translations

• Charles Victor Daremberg , Charles-Émile Ruelle (ed.): Oeuvres de Rufus d'Éphèse. Paris 1879; Reprinted Amsterdam 1963.
• Robert Ritter von Töply (translator): Anatomical works of Rhuphos and Galenos. In: Anatomical notebooks . Department 1, Volume 25, Issue 2, [2], pp. 345-472.
• Hans Gärtner (Ed.): Rufus of Ephesus. The doctor's questions to the sick person. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1962 (= Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Supplement volume 4).
• Hans Gärtner (Ed.): Rufi Ephesii Quaestiones medicinales. Teubner, Leipzig 1970.
• Alexander Sideras (Ed.): About the kidney and bladder ailments. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
• Manfred Ullmann (Ed.): Krankenjournale. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-447-01966-2 .
• Manfred Ullmann (Ed.): The writing of Rufus of Ephesus on jaundice in Arabic and Latin translation. Göttingen 1983 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class. III, 138).
• Jutta Kollesch , Diethard Nickel (ed.): Ancient healing art - selected texts. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-009305-4 . Partial translations: On the designation of human body parts, Paragraphs 1–10 and […] 198–210 as well as The Doctor's Questions to the Sick, Chap. 1-9.
• Peter E. Pormann (Ed.): Rufus of Ephesus. On melancholy. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149760-5 .

literature

• Johannes Ilberg : Rufus of Ephesus, a Greek doctor in Trajan times. Leipzig 1930 (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences: philological-historical class , 41, 1).
• Hans Georg von Manz: Rufus of Ephesus. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 1274-1276.
• Fridolf Kudlien: Rufus of Ephesus . In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography . tape 11 : A. Pitcairn - B. Rush . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1975, p. 601-603 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rufus of Ephesus in the catalog of the German National Library