Galen

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Galen was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher in the Roman Empire whose medical writings dominated European medicine for over a millennium.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Galen canonical 20
Aelius Galenus 1
Claudius Galenus 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman Empire scholar
ancient Greek person
medical writer
philosopher
physician
surgeon
activeIn Pergamon
Rome
birthPlace Pergamon
Pergamum
linked to: Pergamon
birthRegion Asia Minor
Mysia
Roman province of Asia
citizenship Roman Empire
doctrine humoral theory
teleological view of anatomy
era Roman Empire
ethnicity Greek
fieldOfWork anatomy
medicine
pharmacology
philosophy
physiology
fullName Aelius Galenus
linked to: Galen

Claudius Galenus
linked to: Galen
influenced Andreas Vesalius
European medicine
Islamic medicine
Renaissance medicine
William Harvey
medieval medicine
influencedBy Aristotle
Hippocrates
Plato
knownFor Galenic corpus of medical writings
anatomical dissections of animals
experiments on the nervous system
systematizing Greco-Roman medicine
theory of pneuma
theory of the four humors
languageOfWork Ancient Greek
legacy dominant authority in European medicine for over a millennium
foundation of scholastic medical curricula in medieval universities
movement Galenic medicine
name Galen
nativeName Γαληνός
occupation anatomist
medical researcher
pharmacologist
philosopher
physician
physiologist
surgeon
servedAs court physician to Roman emperors
physician to gladiators in Pergamon
textsPreservedIn Arabic translations
Greek manuscripts
Latin translations
treated Marcus Aurelius
wroteAbout anatomy
ethics
logic
pharmacology
philosophy of science
physiology

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Referenced by (24)

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von Galen nameElement Galen
Avicenna influencedBy Galen
Democritus influenced Galen
Al-Zahrawi influencedBy Galen
subject linked to: Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
Ibn al-Nafis influencedBy Galen
Al-Razi influencedBy Galen
subject linked to: Al-Razi (Rhazes)
Ibn al-Haytham influencedBy Galen
subject linked to: Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
Galen name Galen
Galen fullName Aelius Galenus
linked to: Galen
Galen fullName Claudius Galenus
linked to: Galen
Hippocrates influenced Galen
Outbreak of Antonine Plague describedIn writings of Galen
linked to: Galen
Galenic medicine associatedWith Galen of Pergamon
linked to: Galen
Ibn al-Quff influencedBy Galen
Ibn Zuhr influencedBy Galen
Avicenna influencedBy Galen
subject linked to: Abu Ali