Barbara Zipser is aHistorian ofGreekmedicine fromantiquity to theMiddle Ages. She is currently Senior Lecturer atRoyal Holloway, University of London. Her research has been primarily funded by theWellcome Trust.
Zipser received her PhD from theUniversity of Heidelberg in 2003. Her doctoral thesis was entitledPseudo-Alexander Trallianus de oculis, Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar.[1]
Following the completion of her doctorate, Zipser was awarded aWellcome Trust grant for a postdoctoral project on a vernacular Greek medical text by John the Physician. Zipser produced the first critical edition and translation of the text, which was published by Brill in 2009, asJohn the Physician's Therapeutics: a Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek.[2] Zipser moved to RHUL funded again by the Wellcome Trust, including a University Award. In 2019, Zipser won a Collaborative Wellcome Award for a project that develops a methodology for the identification of medicinal plants and minerals. Zipser leads the project which is an international collaboration between Royal Holloway,Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, and the PTS Zurich and Haifa.[3]
Zipser established 'Simon Online', a crowd-sourced open-access Wiki edition ofSimon of Genoa'sclavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century CE.[4]
In 2019, Zipser analysed ransom notes from 1981 in the kidnapping and murder case of ten-year oldUrsula Herrmann, which had gone cold.[5] Zipser used her skills in linguistic analysis to profile the ransom notes in order to determine the kidnappers identity, comparing them with writing samples byWerner Mazurek, the man who was convicted. Based on her analysis, Zipser concluded that “I am sure it was not Mazurek”.[5] Her conclusions were submitted to the state prosecutor's office by Ursula Herrmann's brother.[6]
In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic.
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