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Heinrich von Staden (historian)
German-born American classical philologist and historian of science and medicine
This article is about the historian and classical scholar. For the author of The Land and Government of Muscovy, see Heinrich von Staden (author).
Heinrich von Staden (born ) is a South African historian and classical scholar who has written several books and hundreds of articles and encyclopedia entries on ancient medicine, ancient philosophy, the history of science, and comparative literature.[1] He is one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient science and medicine and has contributed to the transformation of the history of the subject in the period from the fifth century B.C.
to the fifth century A.D.[2] His monumental book Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria is considered the standard in the field.[3][4]
Education and career
Von Staden is a graduate of Yale College and got his Ph.D.
at the University of Tübingen in He was a Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University from to and a Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in – He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Calabria in Italy, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin.
February Animals, pharmakaand Gender Dwinelle Hall, pm. March "For the most part The 96th Sather Professor is Heinrich von Staden, Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, who is one of the world's first authorities on ancient science and medicine. His monumental book Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria systematically gathers and discusses the fragmentary evidence concerning the scientist who seems to have been the first to dissect the human body.He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in France, a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, a Göttingen Academy Corresponding Fellow, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.[5] He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a former president of the Society for Ancient Medicine[1]
Since von Staden has been a Professor in the Educational facility of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Works
- Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in First Alexandria (). Cambridge University Push, ISBN&#;
- Western Literature, Volume 1: The Ancient World (). New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN&#;
Further reading
- Holmes, Brooke; Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich; Capettini, Emilio, eds.Heinrich von Staden (historian) - Wikipedia: Heinrich von Staden (born ) is a South African historian and classical scholar who has written several books and hundreds of articles and encyclopedia entries on ancient medicine, ancient philosophy, the history of science, and comparative literature. [1].
(). The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden. Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;