Prof. Dr. Philippus van der Eijk

Philip van der Eijk (1962) was born in Delft, the Netherlands, and received his secondary education at the Christelijk Lyceum in Delft. He read Classics at Leiden University, where he received his doctorate in 1991 and where he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). In 1994, he moved to Newcastle University to take up a Wellcome Trust University Award in the History of Medicine in the Classical World. At Newcastle, he was appointed (Personal) Professor of Greek in 1998, and Research Professor of Greek in 2005, and he was Director of the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine from its foundation in 2003 until 2009. As of January 2010, he is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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