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Aetius of Amida (502–575)

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Aetius of Amida (502–575 AD)

Original Names

Αέτιος Αμιδηνός (Greek)

Other Names

Aetious Amidenus, Aetious of Antiochia

Date, Country, and City of Birth

502 AD, Syria, Amida (Diarbekir) of Antiochia

Date, Country, and City of Death

575 AD, Constantinople

History of Life

Aetius was born in the city of Amida (today Diyarbakir, Turkey) which is located upon the river Tigris in Mesopotamia (Georgakopoulos 1998). Amida in those times belonged to the authorized area of the big city of Antiochia. This is the reason why one of the names of Aetius is “Aetius of Antiochia.” He was probably a Christian (Αckerknecht 1998).

Aetius studied medicine in the famous medical school of Alexandria of Egypt. He practiced medicine in Constantinople as the personal chief-doctor of Justinian I or Justinian the Great, the famous emperor of Byzantium and builder of the Hagia Sophia. Therefore, it is postulated that he had the title of “κόμης οψικίου” which means the chief-doctor of the emperor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetius_Amidenus...

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  • Αckerknecht, E. H. (1998). Ιστορία της Ιατρικής A short history of Medicine, Geschichte der Medizine. Athens: Marathia.

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  • Castiglioni, A. (1961). Ιστορία της Ιατρικής Storia della Medicina. Athens: Minotavros.

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  • Georgakopoulos, C. (1998). Αρχαίοι Έλληνες Ιατροί (Ancient Greek physicians). Athens: Iaso.

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  • Marketos, S. (1996). Εικονογραφημένη Ιστορία της Ιατρικής, Illustrated History of Medicine. Athens: Zeta.

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  1. Department of Pathology, KAT General Hospital, Athens, Attiki, Greece

    Christos Eftychiadis

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  1. Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan G. van den Tweel

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Eftychiadis, C. (2017). Aetius of Amida (502–575). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_487

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