Prof. Dr. Markham J. Geller

Excellence Cluster Topoi

mark-geller

Markham J. Geller is Gastprofessor für Wissensgeschichte at the Freie Universität with special interests in Babylonian science, especially medicine. He has close links with the MPIWG and is involved in programmes dealing with Lingua Franca and Multilingualism, and the Globalisation of Knowledge.
 

General Information

Group

 

Research Fields

Research Topics

 

Contact

Organisation / Department

Freie Universität Berlin
Topoi Building Dahlem

Address

Hittorfstraße 18
14195 Berlin
Deutschland

Email

Phone

+49 30 838-57698

Fax

+49 30 838-53770
 
 

Secretary

Name

Agnes Kloocke

Email

Phone

+49 30 838-57687

Fax

+49 30 838-53770
 
 

Activities

conference


lecture


talk

"Where is ‚Theory‘ in Babylonian Medicine"
part of the Conference Babylon - Wissenskultur zwischen Orient und Okzident

 

Career

Appointments

Visiting Professor, Freie Universität Berlin  (since 2010) Director, Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL (London) (since 1982) Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL (since 1976)

 
 

Publications

  (Selection)
2010 Ancient Babylonian Medicine in Theory and Practice (Chichester-Malden 2010).
  Look to the Stars: Babylonian Medicine, magic, astrology and melothesia, Max Planck Preprint No. 401 (2010).
2007 Evil Demons: Canonical Utukku Lemnutu Incantations, State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts series (Helsinki, 2007).
2005 Renal and Rectal Disease Texts, Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin 7 (Berlin 2005).
2003 Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena (Wiesbaden 2003)(co-author with J. J. A. van Dijk).
  West Meets East: Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis, Archiv für Orientforschung 48-49 (2001-2002) p. 50-75 [reprinted in: H.F.J. Horstmanshoff and M. Stol (eds.), Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine (Leiden 2003)].
2000 An Akkadian Vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud, in: S. Kottek, M. Horstmanshoff, G. Baader, and G. Ferngren (eds.), From Athens to Jerusalem, Medicine in Hellenized Jewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature (Rotterdam 2000) p. 13-32.
1997 The Last Wedge, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 87 (1997) p. 43-95.
1990 Sumerian Literary Texts, Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum, Vol. 58 (London 1990) (co-author with B. Alster).
1985 Forerunners to Udug-hul: Sumerian Exorcistic Incantations, Freiburger Altorientalische Studien 12 (Wiesbaden 1985).
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

  Education
1974 PhD Brandeis University
1972 MA Brandeis University
1970 BA Princeton University
  Honours, Awards, Fellowship
2009 Doctor Honoris Causa, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
2005-06 Visiting Professor, EPHE Paris
2005-06 Wellcome Trust Award History of Medicine
1980-81 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2000-01 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
1995-96 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)