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Leonid Zhmud

Leonid Zhmud was born in 1956 in Lvov (Ukraine). Having completed his military service in 1977, he studied at the Department of Ancient History, Leningrad University. Having graduated from the University in 1982, he taught history at a school for three years. From 1985-1987 he was a doctoral student at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology (USSR Academy of Sciences). In 1988 he obtained his Ph.D. in history at Leningrad University and in 1995 his D.Sc. degree in philosophy at the same university. From 1987 he has been working at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in St. Petersburg, currently as leading academic researcher. In 1989, together with Lev Lurje, he founded the first Classical High School in Leningrad (Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum), where he worked as a principal in 1989-1990 and as vice-principal in 1992-1996.

In 1990-1992, he was the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Constance University (Germany), with subsequent renewals in the summer months of 1993, 2000, 2004, and 2008. In 1995-1996, he was a Junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC), in 1998 (winter), he received a visiting fellowship at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), and in 1998-1999, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.). In 2000-2001, he was a fellow of the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine (London), in 2002-2003, a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and in 2006-2007, a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar. Research interests: Presocratics, early Greek science and medicine, classical Greek philosophy and religion.

Monographs:

  1. Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997. Pp. 313 (revised translation of the 1994 Russian book).
  2. The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 332 (revised and enlarged translation of the 2002 Russian book).

Articles:

  1. Wissenschaft und Staat in der Antike, VIET № 2 (1989) 7-13.
  2. Pythagoras as a Mathematician, Historia Mathematica 16 (1989) 249-272.
  3. All is Number? “Basic Doctrine” of Pythagoreanism Reconsidered, Phronesis 34 (1989) 270-292.
  4. Die Perestroika und das Gymnasium, Der altsprachliche Unterricht 5 (1991) 93-97 (with L. Lurje).
  5. Orphism and Graffiti from Olbia, Hermes 120 (1992) 159-168.
  6. Mathematici and Acusmatici in the Pythagorean School, in: Pythagorean Philosophy. K. Boudouris, ed. Athens 1992, 240-249.
  7. Die Beziehungen zwischen Philosophie und Wissenschaft in der Antike, Sudhoffs Archiv 78 (1994) 1-13.
  8. On the Concept of “Mythical Thinking”, Hyperboreus 1 (1995) 155-169.
  9. Greek Mathematics and the Orient, Mathesis 12 (1996) 116-145.
  10. Hippon, Der Neue Pauly 5 (1998) 157.
  11. Plato as Architect of Science?, Phronesis 43 (1998) 211-244.
  12. Some Notes on Philolaus and the Pythagoreans, Hyperboreus 4 (1998) 121-149.
  13. ΠΡΩΤΟΙ ΕΥΡΕΤΑΙ – Götter oder Menschen?, in: Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption. Vol. 11 (2001) 9-21.
  14. Revising Doxography: Hermann Diels and his Critics, Philologus 145 (2001) 219-243.
  15. Eudemus’ History of Mathematics, in: Eudemus of Rhodes (Rutgers University Series in the Classical Humanities, Vol. 11). Ed. by I. Bodnar, W. W. Fortenbaugh. New Brunswick 2002, 263-306.
  16. Historiographical Project of the Lyceum: The Peripatetic History of Science, Philosophy, and Medicine, in: Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption, Vol. 13 (2003) 113-130.
  17. Alexander I. Zaicev und die westliche Forschung, Hyperboreus 10 (2004) 215-221.
  18. Eudemos aus Rhodos, Menon, Dikaiarchos aus Messana, in: Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Vol. 3: Die Philosophie der Antike. Ed. by H. Flashar. Basel 2004, 558-575.
  19. „Saving the phenomena“ between Eudoxus and Eudemus, in: Homo Sapiens und Homo Faber. Festschrift für J. Mittelstraß. Ed. by G. Wolters and M. Carrier. Berlin/New York 2005, 17-24.
  20. Überlegungen zur pythagoreischen Frage, in: Frühgriechisches Denken. Ed. by G. Rechenauer. Göttingen 2005, 135-151.
  21. Mathematics vs Philosophy. An alleged fragment of Aristotle in Iamblichus, Hyperboreus 13 (2007) 77-88.
  22. Alcmaeon, Archytas, Ecphantus, Hicetas, Hippasus, Hippon, Menestor, Philolaus, Pythagoras, Theodorus, in: Biographical Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. London: Routledge, 2008.
  23. Doxographie in ihrer Beziehung zu den anderen Genres der antiken Philosophiegeschichte, in: Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Vol. 1: Die Philosophie der Antike. Vorsokratiker. Ed. by H. Flashar et al. Basel 2009 (forthcoming).
  24. Pythagoras von Samos; Pythagoreische Schule, in: ibid. (forthcoming).
  25. Pythagorean Communities: From Individuals to a Collective Portrait, in: Symposium philosophiae antiquae quintum. Polarity and Tension of Being: Pythagoras and Heraclitus. Ed. by A. Pierris. Patras 2009 (forthcoming).

Reviews:

  1. Nicolaou S.-M. Die Atomlehre Demokrits und Platons Timaios. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung. Stuttgart 1998, Classical World 94.2 (2001) 209-210.
  2. Ph. J. van der Eijk (ed.). Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity. Leiden 1999, Social History of Medicine 15 (2002) 159-160.
  3. Baltussen H. Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato: Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus. Leiden 2000, Classical World 97 (2003) 106-107.
  4. Ch. Riedweg. Pythagoras. Leben, Lehre, Nachwirkung. München 2002, Ancient Philosophy 23 (2003) 416-420.
  5. Frans de Haas and Jaap Mansfeld (eds.). Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book I. Symposium Aristotelicum. Oxford, 2004, Classical World 100 (2007) 163-164.
  6. Daniel W. Graham. Explaining the Cosmos. The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy. Princeton UP 2006, Gnomon 80 (2008).
  7. Ph. J. van der Eijk. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge, 2005, Classical World 101 (2008).