The Tulane Department of Classical Studies presents the Dennis A Georges Lecture in Hellenic Culture
2011 Georges Lecture: Experiments on the Living: Ancient Science and Medicine
Dr. Heinrich Von Staden (Princeton University)
March 16, 2011 at 7PM in the Freeman Auditorium (205 Woldenberg Art Center)
HEINRICH VON STADEN, now emeritus, served as professor of Classics and History of Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1998-2010, after many years as a professor at Yale University. Prof. von Staden has published in many fields, most notably on ancient science and medicine, fields that he has helped to transform. His book Herophilus: the Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria (1989) is a major contribution to the history of Greek intellectual discourse. He has won numerous awards, and he has been appointed a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of both the British Academy and the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
