RGKrause_Harvey_animalium

William Harvey, Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu: de membranis ac humoribis uteri: et de conceptione, Amstelodami: Lud. Elzevir 1651, frontispiece.

People

Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650

Research Group Leader Katja Krause

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Research Group Leader

Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2023)

PhD, Professor, TU Berlin

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

kkrause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Service & Administrators

Editorial Assistant (1 Mar 2020-31 Oct 2023)

Dr.

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

ksturge@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Digital Content Curator, Departmental Assistant (1 Oct 2021-31 Oct 2023)

The Virtual Sourcebook: A Global History of Experience

Researchers

Affiliated Scholar (1 Nov 2022-30 Apr 2024)

Dr.

Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs

mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Feb 2023-31 Dec 2023)

Erfassung der Psyche und Einhegung von Körperlichkeit: Die Geschichte apparativen, psychologischen Testens und das Verhältnis von Hand- und Kopfarbeit

Visiting Scholar (15 May 2023-14 Aug 2023)

Figures of the Invisible: Geometrical Icons in Renaissance Christian Humanism, 1300-1600

Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2023-31 Aug 2023)

The Science of Children

jcole@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Affiliated Scholar (1 Feb 2023-31 Oct 2023)

Latin-into-Hebrew: Medieval Natural Science across Linguistic Boundaries

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-15 Jul 2023)

Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium

Affiliated Scholar (24 Jun 2022-10 Sep 2022)

The Experience of Uncertainty: Generation in European Medicine, 1500-1650

Affiliated Scholar (1 Oct 2022-31 Oct 2023)

Dr.

(Un-)Scientific Methods

herlwein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2023-30 Sep 2023)

Dr.

Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science

Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2023-31 Aug 2023)

Dr.

Subjectivity and Diagnosis in Greek and Roman Medicine

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Dec 2022)

Dr.

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The “Eurasian” Life of a Seventeenth Century “European” Botanical Classic

mmenon@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2022-30 Sep 2022)

Prof. Dr

Knowledges in Transit: Linnaeus's Laplandic Journey (1732)

Visiting Scholar (6 Apr 2023-30 Jun 2023)

Prof.

Ecophenomenology and existentialism in the context of climate change

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2022-31 Oct 2023)

Dr.

Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 May 2022-14 Nov 2022)

Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Oct 2023)

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

ytao@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 May 2021-31 Jul 2023)

German Scientists, their Observations, and Institutional Ties to the New World in the Seventeenth Century

twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

External Advisors

This Research Group is complemented by an interdisciplinary board of external advisors, including:

Peter Adamson (LMU Munich), Dong Xiu Yuang (Shandong University), Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University), Roberto Hofmeister Pich (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Luís Lopez-Farjeat (UP Mexico), José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto), Yosef Schwartz (Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University), Loris Sturlese (Università del Salento), and Richard Taylor (Marquette University).

 

Collaborators

We work in close collaboration with the following existing research projects:

  • Heirs of Avicenna and Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen (both LMU Munich)
  • Animal Rationale Mortale, Petrus Hispanus medicus, and From Data to Wisdom (Universidade do Porto)
  • Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group
  • Making Mysticism (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) (completed)