Nelly Tsouyopoulos – Wikipedia

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Nelly tsouyopoulos (born SAVERIODOU, Greek Nellie Tsuyopoulou Saveriadou Nelli Tsougiopoulou Saveriadou , * April 13, 1930 in Famagusta, British crown colony Cyprus; † May 5, 2005 in Oxford) was a British-German [first] Medical historian. She was a professor of history and theory of medicine at the University of Münster and founding rector of the University of Cyprus.

Nelly Tsouyopoulos was born as the daughter of the village school teacher in Famagusta. From 1947 to 1952 she studied classical philology, history and archeology at the University of Athens and then worked as a teacher and social worker in Cyprus. In 1957, as a scholarship holder of the Greek state and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she started studying philosophy, mathematics and pedagogy at the University of Munich. As a student of Kurt von Fritz, she was over in 1962 with a dissertation Punishment in early Greek thinking PhD. From 1967 to 1971 she was a research assistant at the research institute for the history of the natural sciences and the technology of the German Museum in Munich. In 1972 it was brought to the Institute for History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster by Richard Toellner, where she was working on the subject in 1979 Andreas Röschlaub and romantic medicine. The philosophical foundations of modern medicine Habilitated and received a professorship for history and theory of medicine in 1984. To her subject, Tsouyopoulos searched for a dedicated philosophical approach, as was not only evident in her work on the combination of romantic medicine (for example with Johannes Müller) and philosophy (especially Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling), but above all in her systematic reflections.

At the end of the 1980s, Tsouyopoulos was commissioned as President of the founding senate with the foundation of the University of Cyprus, which was opened in Nicosia in October 1992. As a member of the appeal commission, she called for the tasks of comparative international educational science, among other things, the educator Volker Lenhart from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. [2] Since 1996, Tsouyopoulos has been a member of the board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies at the University of Münster.

Tsouyopoulos students were Thomas Rütten, Claudia Wiesemann and Urban Wiesing.

Monographs

  • Punishment in early Greek thinking . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau/Munich 1966 (revised dissertation, University of Munich, 1962).
  • Andreas Röschlaub and romantic medicine . Fischer, Stuttgart 1982 (habilitation thesis, University of Münster, 1979).
  • Asklepios and the philosophers. Paradigm change in medicine in the 19th century (= Medicine and philosophy . Vol. 2). Edited by Claudia Wiesemann, Barbara Bröker and Sabine Rogge. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2008.

Essays

  • We owe a rooster to the Asklepios. Of the philosophical concerns of modern medicine . In: Philosophical Rundschau . Bd. 33, 1986, S. 76–102.
  • Doctors contra clysters and feudalism. The consequences of a Romantic revolution . In: Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine (Hrsg.): Romanticism and the sciences . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990, S. 101–118.
  • Schelling’s natural philosophy. Sin or inspiration for the reformer of physiology Johannes Müller? . In: Michael Hagner and Bettina Fahrig-Schmidt (ed.): Johannes Müller and the philosophy . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, pp. 65–83.
  • The emergence of medicine as a practical science . In: Medical ethics magazine . Bd. 44, 1998, S. 99–105.
  • Romantic philosophy and medicine . In: Mirko D. Grmek (fair): History of medical thought in the West . Band 3, Seuil, Paris 1999, S. 7–27.
  • Fear of death and the longing for immortality . In: Friedrich Niewöhner and Richard Schaeffer (ed.): immortality (= Wolfenbütteler research. BD. 86). Harrassowitz in Komishsion, Wiesbaden 1999, S. 103–1
  • Claudia Wiesemann: “Iatros Philosophos Isotheos” – the philosopher, scientific theorist and medical historian Nelly Tsouyopoulos (1930–2005). In: Medical History Journal. Bd. 41 (2006), H. 1, S. 85–98.
  1. ↑ Urban Wiesing: Nelly Tsouyopoulos: On the life of a philosopher (Obituary) (PDF; 22 kB)
  2. ↑ Correspondence Education Seminar University Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Archives, Rep. 211.