Heinrich von Staden (historian)

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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 1939) 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 1961 graduate of

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 1998 von Staden has been a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Works

  • Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria (1989). Cambridge University Press,
    ISBN 0521236460
  • Western Literature, Volume 1: The Ancient World (1971). New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
    ISBN 0155952765

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b Berkeley Classics: Heinrich von Staden
  2. ^ Heinrich von Staden's page at the Institute for Advanced Study
  3. The Classical Review
    (New Series), 40, pp 238-240. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00253444.
  4. ^ Reviews of Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria, Cambridge University Press 2016
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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