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Heinrich von Staden (historian)
German-born American classical philologist and historian of science and medicine
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 Yale College and got his Ph.D