>From: "HARRY MARKS" <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:43 PM >Subject: Dr. Owsei Temkin > > >Dear Colleagues, > >It is with sadness that we announce that Dr. Owsei Temkin, aged >99, died peacefully July 18 in Baltimore, Maryland. A scholar of great >distinction, Temkin wrote on medicine and history from the 5th century >B.C. to the 20th century A.D. Earlier this year, Temkin published a new >collection of essays, containing a newly written article on the >Hippocratic Oath. Always actively engaged in thinking about medicine, >both classical and modern, he was a major intellectual influence in the >history of medicine. Dr. Temkin was greatly respected by colleagues and >by multiple generations of former students and admiring readers. He will >be sorely missed. > >Born on October 6, 1902 in Minsk, Russia, Dr. Temkin received his >medical degree from the University of Leipzig in 1927. He joined Henry >Sigerist at the Leipzig Institute for the History of Medicine, and >followed Sigerist in 1932 to the Institute of the History of Medicine at >The Johns Hopkins University. He served as director and William H. Welch >Professor from 1958-68. The winner of both the American Association for >the History of Medicine's Welch prize and the Sarton medal from the >History of Science Society, Temkin was a member of the American >Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American >Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the History of Science Society. He was >President of the AAHM, 1958-1960, and editor of the Bulletin of the >History of Medicine from 1948-1968, where he was aided by his life-long >collaborator and wife, Mrs. C. Lilian Temkin, who served as the Bulletin's >Assistant Editor from 1957 to 1971. > >The Department of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology >has been planning a 100 year birthday anniversary in honor of Dr. Temkin, >scheduled for Saturday, October 5, 2002. Details about the program and >event will be contained in a future message. > >-Gert H. Brieger >-Harry M. Marks > > >____________________________________________________ >H-SCI-MED-TECH >H-NET List for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology >email: [log in to unmask] >web: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~smt/ Robert Maxwell Young, Prof. Emeritus of Psychotherapy & Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Univ. of Sheffield, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/ Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations & Honoured Prof., New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia. http://www.nbu.bg/bihr/psy.htm Home: 26 Freegrove Rd., London N7 9RQ. tel. +44 207 607 8306 Private Practice, Consultation, Supervision Web Site & Writings http://www.human-nature.com [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus Please put 'Message for Robert Young' in the Subject line.