Prof. Dr. Nelly Tsouyopoulos – née Saveriadou (1930-2005)

 


Board member of the Institute (1996-2005)





On November 26, 2005, an academic commemoration for Nelly Tsouyopolous took place in Münster.

On February 21, 2006, the University of Cyprus hosted a commemoration for the deceased in Nicosia.

 

 On May 5, 2005, Prof. Dr. Nelly Tsouyopolous passed away after severe illness which she had endured with her innate admirable imperturbability.

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus-Studies lost an energetic board member whom it owes thanks to in many respects. Nelly Tsouyopoulos was significantly involved in the foundation of the Institute; in 2002, she was rewarded with the “Freundschaftsplakette” (friendship insignia) for her services by the University of Münster. She always committed her utmost devotion to the concerns of the Institute. Thus, she managed to build a firm bridge from Cyprus to Münster – and beyond.

Being a professor of medicinal history and theory at the University of Münster and founding principal of the University of Cyprus, she was an important person in the science and politico-scientific communities. Those who knew her personally will remember her as an impressive personality of intelligence, humour, friendliness, helpfulness and dedication.

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Vita

 

1930

Born in Famagusta/Varosha, Cyprus
1947-1952

Studies at the University of Athens. Diploma: History and Classics
1952-1953

Social work at schools in Northern Greece
1953-1956

Teacher at the gymnasiums of Morphou and Famagusta in Cyprus

1957-1962


Studies at the University of Munich in Germany (Philosophy, Mathematics, Pedagogics), Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) During the studies scholarships: Alexander von Humboldt (Germany) and I.K.Y. (Greece)

1962-1964

Contributor at Rowohlt publishers for the publication of Aristotle’s works
1964-1966

Research assistant at the University library of Munich
1967-1971

Research assistant at the Research Institute for the History of Sciences at the German Museum (Deutsche Museum) in Munich
since 1972

Assistant professor at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Muenster
1979

Habilitation at the Medical Faculty; venia legendi for History and Philosophy of Medicine; associate professor
1984-1995

Professor at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Muenster
1989-1995

President of the Interim Governing Board for the Foundation of the University of Cyprus
since 1996

Member of the Governing Board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Muenster
2002

Awarded with the medal of friendship by the University of Münster
5.5. 2005

Deceased in Oxford

 

Publications ( selection):

  • To yparxiako adiexodo, in: Nea estia (1964) 1564-1571 (in Greek)
  • Strafe im frühgriechischen Denken (Freiburg/München 1966)
  • Die Entdeckung der Struktur komparativer Begriffe in der Antike: Zur Begriffsbildung bei Aristoteles und Proklos, in: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte (1970) 152-171
  • Andreas Röschlaub und die Romantische Medizin. Die philosophischen Grundlagen der modernen Medizin (Stuttgart/New York 1989)
  • Wir sind dem Asklepios einen Hahn schuldig: Von den philosophischen Sorgen der modernen Medizin, in: Philosophische Rundschau 33 (1986) 76-102
  • Doctors contra clysters and feudalism: the consequences of a Romantic revolution, in: A. Cunningham / N. Jardin (Hrsg.), Romanticism and the sciences (Cambridge 1990) 101-118
  • Schillings Naturphilosophie: Sünde oder Inspiration für den Reformer der Physiologie Johannes Müller?, in: M. Hagner / B. Wahring-Schmidt (Hrsg.), Johannes Müller und die Philosophie (Berlin 1992) 65-83
  • Die Entstehung der Medizin als praktische Wissenschaft, in: Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik 44 (1998) 99-105
  • La philosophie et la médecine romantiques, in: M. D. Grmek (Hrsg.), Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident, Bd. 3 (Paris 1999) 7-27
  • Angst vor dem Tode und die Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit, in: F. Niewöhner / R. Schaeffer (Hrsg.), Unsterblichkeit. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 86 (Wiesbaden 1999) 103-113
  • Asklepios und die Philosophen. Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 18. Jahrhundert und die Entstehung der modernen Medizin (Stuttgart 2008)