Product Code Database
Ludwig Edelstein (23 April 1902 – 16 August 1965) was a classical scholar and historian of medicine.
Because he and his wife were Jewish, Edelstein lost his academic position and had to flee from Germany in 1933 when the came to power.*Rütten, Thomas, Ludwig Edelstein at the Crossroads of 1933. On the Inseparability of Life, Work, and Their Reverberations, Early Science and Medicine, Volume 11, Number 1, 2006, pp. 50–99(50) PDF Upon his arrival in the US in 1934, he took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University. Subsequently, he taught at the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he resigned rather than sign the Levering Act loyalty oath. He then returned to Johns Hopkins, where he had appointments at the university in Philosophy and at the School of Medicine in History of Medicine. At the university he taught ancient Greek philosophy in undergraduate and graduate seminars and courses.
Edelstein's 1943 translation and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath was influential on contemporary thinking about medical ethics. He was an inspiring and beloved teacher. Several of his Hopkins students became accomplished scholars. He retired from Hopkins and spent his last years at New York's Rockefeller Institute when it transformed from being a medical research institute into being a science university. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1954.
|
|
