News - past years
→We are very sad to announce that Christine Salazar passed away on 20 October 2021 after a period of illness -link
Habilitation projects completed
2020
Oliver Overwien: Der Medizinunterricht der alexandrinischen Iatrosophisten in Spätantike und orientalischem Mittelalter
2018
Roberto Lo Presti: „Wo der Philosoph aufhört, fängt der Arzt an“: Aufsätze über die Medizin und Philosophie und über ihr Verhältnis in der Antike und der Frühneuzeit
2017
Chiara Thumiger: A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
PhD projects completed
2018
Ricarda Gäbel: Aetius of Amida on Diseases of the Brain and Mental Illness. An Analysis of Chapters 3-10 of the Sixth Book of his Libri Medicinales with Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Wolfgang Häfele: Krankheit und deren Behandlung in Sophronios von Jerusalems Wundern der Heiligen Kyros und Johannes
2017
Georgia-Maria Korobili: Centering on Life. Aristotle’s On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration, chapters 1-6. Translation, Commentary and Interpretive Essays
Claudia Mirrione: Theory and Terminology of Mixture in Galen. Krasis and Mixis in Galen’s thought
2016
Francesca Corazza: Medical papyri from Antinoopolis: a case study in late antique medicine
Julien Devinant: Les troubles de l’âme selon Galien (Julien Devinant), co-tutelle with Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
2015
Wei Cheng: Pleasure and Pain in Context: Aristotle’s Dialogues with his Contemporaries
2014
Giulia Ecca: Praecepta: Vorschriften zur medizinischen Deontologie. Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar
Florian Gärtner: Galen, De locis affectis I-II: kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung, Kommentar
Orly Lewis: Praxagoras of Cos on Pulse, Pneuma and the Arteries and his Role in the Development of Ancient Medicine
Honours and Awards
2020
Sean Coughlin
Junior Star Fellowship from the Czech Academy of Sciences for the project “Alchemies of Scent. Reconstructing the Practices of Ancient Greco-Egyptian Perfumery: An Experimental Approach to the History of Science” (2020)
Caroline Petit
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrichten/dezember-2020/nr-20127
Julius Rocca
DFG Eigene Stelle at HU Berlin for his project „The Dialectics of Dissection: Galen’s Isagogic Anatomical Texts”
Giouli Korobili
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship at Utrecht University for her project “Geoanatomy: The Body as a Model in Greco-Roman Conceptions of the Earth and the Environment”.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/marie-curie-individual-fellowship-winners-start-research-in-utrecht
2019
Roberto Lo Presti
Walter de Gruyter-Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
http://www.bbaw.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen-2019/auszeichnung_presti
Dorothea Keller
Eduard Norden Prize for the best BA Thesis
Giulia Ecca
Rita Levi Montalcini Award at La Sapienza, Rome
2018
Orly Lewis
Young Historians Prize of the International Academy for the History of Science
Shlomo Pines Prize for Young Historians
2017
Wei Cheng
Werner-Jaeger-Preis der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie
2013
Matteo Martelli
Young Historians Prize of the International Academy for the History of Science