[math-ias] Scholarly Correspondences: March 17: Isolde Lehnert, “The Life of Max Meyerhof through his correspondence”

[Digital Scholarship @IAS]

Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late 
Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures.

You are cordially invited to join us for the seventh lecture of the series:

March 17, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST) – Isolde Lehnert, The Life of Max Meyerhof 
through his correspondence.

Max Meyerhof, born in 1874 as the only son of a German-Jewish family in 
Hildesheim, spent half his life in Cairo, where he died in 1945, shortly 
before the end of the war. He practiced as a successful ophthalmologist, who 
was said to be able to cure even the blind, and participated in the 
establishment of a polyclinic for the poor. Autodidactically, he trained 
himself as a medical historian and orientalist, collected old manuscripts 
and opened up these sources of Arabic and Jewish medicine of the Middle 
Ages. His various correspondence partners reflect this development to some 
extent. In both fields, he acted as a mediator for the exchange and a new 
understanding of the achievements in East and West, which are ultimately 
based on a common cultural heritage of the past centuries.

Pre-register: bit.ly/OrXJB <https://bit.ly/OrXJB> . After registering, you 
will receive an email containing information about joining the event.

The object of this lecture series is to bring together scholars and 
librarians engaged with collections of correspondences and/or include 
related projects that use appropriate digital tools to map and analyze such 
corpora. All lectures will be held online from 12-1 pm (EST). It is hosted 
by Sabine Schmidtke (NES at IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship 
@IAS).

For additional information about the upcoming lectures, please visit: 
<https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044> 
https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044

Sabine Schmidtke scs at ias.edu <mailto:scs at ias.edu>

María Mercedes Tuya ds at ias.edu <mailto:ds at ias.edu>





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