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  1. Mar 6, 2024 · Galen (born 129 ce, Pergamum, Mysia, Anatolia [now Bergama, Turkey]—died c. 216) was a Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century. His authority in the Byzantine world and the Muslim Middle East was similarly long-lived.

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    Anatomy. Medicine. Philosophy. Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus [2] ( Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen ( / ˈɡeɪlən /) or Galen of Pergamon, [3] was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. [4] [5] [6] Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical ...

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  3. Lived 129 A.D. – c. 216 A.D. Galen’s medical doctrine dominated the Western and Arab worlds for close to 1500 years. Galen was a Greek who became the Roman Empire’s greatest physician, authoring more books still in existence than any other Ancient Greek: about 20,000 pages of his work survive. He was the personal physician to Rome’s ...

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  5. Claudius Galen was born in Pergamum (modern-day Turkey) of Greek parents. He studied in Greece, in Alexandria and other parts of Asia Minor and returned home to become chief physician to the ...

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    Claudius Galenus, or Galen, was born in Pergamum, an old Greek city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, or present day Turkey, in the year 130 A.D. Pergamum was an ancient center of learning and medicine, having an Asclepion and a famous library that second only to the one in Alexandria. Galen was born into the lap of luxury, which afforded him ...

  7. Mar 3, 2016 · Galen of Pergamum was one of the most renowned physicians that the Roman Empire had ever produced. In addition to being a celebrated physician, Galen is said to have also been a philosopher. Unlike his medical treatises, most of Galen’s philosophical writings have been lost, as a result of a fire that destroyed the Temple of Peace in Rome in ...

  8. Dec 28, 2022 · His name was Claudius Galenus, often referred to as Galen. Although Greek, Galen was Born in 129 CE in the Roman/Asian/Greek city of Pergamum. In his lifetime, Galen would become the most influential and esteemed physician and medical researcher in the Roman Empire.

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