List of post-classical physicians
The following is a list of post-classical physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 5th and 15th century CE.
Name | Gender | Related periods | Century | Ethnicity | Known for |
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Theophilus Protospatharius | Man | Middle Ages | 7th century CE | Greek | |
Palladius | Man | Middle Ages | 6th century CE | Greek | |
Marcellus Empiricus | Man | Late antiquity | 4th–5th century CE | Roman | Author of pharmacological compendium De medicamentis |
Caelius Aurelianus | Man | Late antiquity | 5th century CE | Greco-Roman | Medical translator. |
Adamantius Judaeus | Man | Late antiquity | 5th century CE | Greco-Roman Jew | |
Benedict of Nursia | Man | Middle Ages | 6th century CE | Italian | Founder of "monastic medicine"[1] |
Alexander of Tralles[2] | Man | Middle Ages | 6th-7th century CE | Byzantine | |
Aetius of Amida[2][3] | Man | Middle Ages | 6th century CE | Byzantine Greek | |
Stephanus of Athens[4][5] | Man | Middle Ages | 6th-7th century CE | Byzantine Greek | |
Raban Gamaliel VI | Man | Late antiquity | 4th-5th century CE | Roman Jew | |
Isidore of Seville | Man | Middle Ages | 6th-7th century CE | Byzantine | |
Paul of Aegina[4][2] | Man | Middle Ages | 7th century CE | Byzantine | Wrote Medical Compendium in Seven Books |
Leo Itrosophist | Man | Middle Ages | 8th-9th century CE | Byzantine | Wrote "Epitome of Medicine". |
Al-Kindi | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th century CE | Arab | Author of De Gradibus |
Yuhanna ibn Masawaih | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 8th-9th century CE | Persian | Personal physician to four Abbasid caliphs.[6] |
Hunayn ibn Ishaq | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th century CE | Arab Christian | |
al-Tabari | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th century CE | Persian | Produced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine titled Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of wisdom").[7] |
Theodosius Romanus | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th century CE | Syriac Christian | |
Ishaq ibn Hunayn | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th century CE | Arab Christian | |
Yahya ibn Sarafyun | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th century CE | Syriac Christian | |
al-Razi | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th-10th century CE | Persian | Produce work in pediatrics and makes the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles in his al-Hawi.[8] |
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 9th-10th century CE | Egyptian Jew | |
Shabbethai Donnolo[9] | Man | Middle Ages | 10th century CE | Graeco-Italian Jew | |
al-Tamimi | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th century CE | Arab | |
al-Majusi | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th century CE | Persian | Famous for the Kitab al-Maliki or Complete Book of the Medical Art, his textbook on medicine and psychology. |
al-Zahrawi | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th-11th century CE | Arab Andalusian | Founder of early surgical and medical instruments, writing Kitab al-Tasrif. |
Ibn Butlan | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 11th century CE | Arab Christian | Writer of Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa [romanization: Tacuinum Sanitatis] or maintenance of health. |
Michael Psellos | Man | Middle Ages | 11th century CE | Byzantine Greek | |
Ibn al-Haytham | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th-11th century CE | Arab | |
Ibn Sina | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 10th-11th century CE | Persian | Writer of Qanun-e dâr Tâb or The Canon of Medicine. |
Simeon Seth[2] | Man | Middle Ages | 11th-12 century CE | Byzantine Jew | |
Constantine the African | Man | Middle Ages | 11th century CE | Unclear | |
Anna Komnene | Woman | Middle Ages | 11th-12 century CE | Byzantine | |
Trota of Salerno | Woman | Middle Ages | 12th century CE | Unclear | |
Rahere | Man | Middle Ages | 12th century CE | Anglo-Norman | Founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in 1123. |
Stephen of Pisa | Man | Middle Ages | 12th century CE | Italian | Translated works of Hali Abbas (the al-Kitab al-Maliki, by Ali Abbas al-Majusi), translated around 1127 into Latin as Liber regalis dispositionis. |
Ibn Zuhr | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 11th-12 century CE | Arab Andalusian | |
Ibn Rushd | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 12th century CE | Arab Andalusian | |
Matthaeus Platearius | Man | Middle Ages | 12th century CE | Unclear | |
Pope Innocent III | Man | Middle Ages | 12th-13th century CE | Italian | Organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome inspiring others all over Europe |
Ibn an-Nafis | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 13th century CE | Arab | Suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation.[10] |
Ibn al-Baytar | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 12th-13th century CE | Arab Andalusian | Wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.[10] |
Roger Bacon | Man | Middle Ages | 13th century CE | English | Ideas on experimental science and convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness. |
Pietro d'Abano | Man | Middle Ages | 13th-14th century CE | Italian | Professor of medicine at the University of Padua.[11] |
Joannes Actuarius | Man | Middle Ages | 13th-14th century CE | Byzantine | Wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine[12] |
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya | Man | Islamic Golden Age | 13th-14th century CE | Unclear | |
William of Saliceto | Man | Middle Ages | 13th century CE | Italian | |
Henri de Mondeville | Man | Middle Ages | 13th-14th century CE | French | |
Mondino de Luzzi | Man | Middle Ages | 13th-14th century CE | Italian | carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier.[13][14] |
Guy de Chauliac | Man | Middle Ages | 14th century CE | French | |
John Arderne | Man | Middle Ages | 14th century CE | English | |
Heinrich von Pfolspeundt | Man | Middle Ages | 15th century CE | German |
Notes
- 1.^ Assumed gender.
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