Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk

Institut für Klassische Philologie (HU)

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Philip van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was born in Delft, the Netherlands, and read Classics at Leiden University, where he received his doctorate in 1991. He subsequently held a Fellowship of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) at Leiden University. In 1994, he moved to Newcastle University to take up a Wellcome Trust University Award in the History of Medicine in the Classical World. At Newcastle, he was appointed (Personal) Professor of Greek in 1998, and Research Professor of Greek in 2005. With colleagues from Newcastle and Durham, he founded the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine in 2003, of which he was a Director until 2009.
 

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philosophische Fakultät II
Institut für Klassische Philologie

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Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

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+49 30 2093-70426

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+49 30 2093-70436
 
 

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Career

Awards

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010-2014)
Ausonius Prize for outstanding achievement in Classical scholarship (Uni-versity of Trier) (2006)
Wellcome Trust University Award at Newcastle University (1994-1999)

 

Appointments

Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010)
Research Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Historical Studies (2005-2009)
(Personal) Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Classics, School of Historical Studies (1998-2005)
Lecturer in Greek at Leiden University, Department of Classics (1993-1994)
Research Fellow for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) at Leiden University, Department of Classics (1991-1994)
Research Assistant at Leiden University, Department of Classics (1987-1991)

 
 

Publications


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2010 Principles and practices of compilation and abbreviation in the medical ‘encyclopaedias’ of late antiquity, in: M. Horster - C. Reitz (eds.), Condensing Texts – Condensed Texts (Stuttgart 2010) p. 519-554.
2009 Aristotle! What a thing for you to say! Galen’s engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians, in: C.J. Gill, J. Wilkins, and T. Whitmarsh (eds.), Galen and the World of Knowledge (Cambridge 2009) p. 261-281.
2008 Nemesius of Emesa. On the Nature of Man (Liverpool 2008) (co-editor with R. W. Sharples).
2005 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity. Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease (Cambridge 2005).

Hippocrates in context, Studies in Ancient Medicine 31 (Leiden 2005) (editor).

Between the Hippocratics and the Alexandrians: Medicine, science and philosophy in the fourth century BCE, in: R.W. Sharples (ed.), Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity (Aldershot 2005) p. 72-109.
2000, 2001 Diocles of Carystus. A Collection of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary. Vol. 1: Text and Translation; Vol. 2: Commentary, Studies in Ancient Medicine 23 (Leiden 2000, 2001).
1999 Ancient Histories of Medicine. Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity, Studies in Ancient Medicine 20 (Leiden 1999) (editor).
1995 Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context, 2 Vols. (Amsterdam – Atlanta 1995) (co-editor with H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and P.H. Schrijvers).
1994 Aristoteles. De insomniis. De divinatione per somnum, Aristoteles. Werke in deutscher Übersetzung, Band 14/III (Berlin 1994).
 
 

Curriculum Vitae


 Education
1991 Doctorate at Leiden University
1981-1986 Study of Classics at Leiden University: Degree of “doctorandus” awarded in 1986; Subjects: Greek (major), Latin, Patristics and Comparative Literature; Teaching License Classics awarded 1986; Degree of “litteris candidatus” awarded in 1983

Honours
2006 Corresponding Member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Fellowships
2009 Visiting Fellowship All Souls College, Oxford
1991-1994 Fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) at Leiden University
2000-2001 Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)

Memberships
2006 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton