Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

CV

• since October 2024 Research Associate at the DFG Longterm Project “Galen’s Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; PhD candidate, title of the dissertation project: “The Biographies of Hippocrates in the Greek, Latin and Arabic Tradition” (supervised by PD Dr. Oliver Overwien and Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk)
• 2021 – 2024 M.A. in Classical Philology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Master’s thesis awarded the Eduard-Norden-Prize in October 2024)
• 2017 – 2022 B.A. in Greek and Latin Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research Interests

• Biographical and gnomological texts in the Greek and Arabic tradition
• Hippocrates of Cos
• Ps.-Hippocratic Letters
• Translation techniques in Arabic translations of Greek medical writings
• Galen as author and commentator

Publications

• „Vindician als Literat. Untersuchungen zur Epistula ad Valentinianum“, in: Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 17 (2023), 79–106.
• „Galens Kommentar zu den hippokratischen Aphorismen – Ein neues DFG-Langzeitvorhaben an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin“, in: LGBB 2 (2025), im Erscheinen.

Talks

• “Ἱπποκράτους γένος καὶ βίος κατὰ Σωρανόν, Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum”, June 2024 at the Research Colloquium “Ancient Medicine and History of Science”, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• “On the Authorship of the Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum”, September 2024 at the International Summer School “Heteronomous Texts in the Ancient and Medieval History of Science. Medicine, Philosophy and further Arts and Sciences”, Universität Jena
• “Die ps.-hippokratischen Briefe in der griechischen und arabischen Tradition”, September 2025 at the Panel “The Fortleben of Ancient Greek Medicine in the Syriac-Arabic Scientific Literature”, 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag, FAU Erlangen