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 "Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body"

Research Group Leader Katja Krause

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Chaonan Zhang

sek.krause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Group Leader

Katja Krause

Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2026)

Prof. Dr.

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

kkrause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Service & Administrators

Kate Sturge

Editorial Assistant (1 Mar 2020-31 Oct 2026)

Dr.

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

ksturge@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Anina Woischnig

Digital Content Curator, Departmental Assistant (1 Oct 2021-31 Oct 2026)

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

Researchers

Maria Avxentevskaya

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

Agnes Bauer

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

Fabio Dominik De Gregorio

Affiliated Scholar (1 Feb 2023-31 Oct 2023)

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

Dominic Dold

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-15 Jul 2023)

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

Hannah Erlwein

Affiliated Scholar (1 Oct 2022-31 Oct 2023)

Dr.

(Un-)Scientific Methods

herlwein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Daniel Moshe Knebel

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2023-30 Jun 2024)

Dr.

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

Stefanie Rudolf

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2022-31 Oct 2023)

Dr.

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

Yuan Tao

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

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

ytao@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Tracy Wietecha

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 May 2021-31 Jan 2024)

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)
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