Galen

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Roman Empire scholar ancient Greek person medical writer philosopher physician surgeon

Galen was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher in the Roman Empire whose medical writings dominated European medicine for over a millennium.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Galen canonical	20
Aelius Galenus	1
Claudius Galenus	1
Galen of Pergamon	1
writings of Galen	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Roman Empire scholar ⓘ ancient Greek person ⓘ medical writer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ surgeon ⓘ
activeIn	Pergamon ⓘ Rome ⓘ
birthPlace	Pergamon ⓘ Pergamon ⓘ surface form: Pergamum
birthRegion	Asia Minor ⓘ Mysia ⓘ Roman province of Asia ⓘ
citizenship	Roman Empire ⓘ
doctrine	humoral theory ⓘ teleological view of anatomy ⓘ
era	Roman Empire ⓘ
ethnicity	Greek ⓘ
fieldOfWork	anatomy ⓘ medicine ⓘ pharmacology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ physiology ⓘ
fullName	Galen self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Aelius Galenus Galen self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Claudius Galenus
influenced	Andreas Vesalius ⓘ European medicine ⓘ Islamic medicine ⓘ Renaissance medicine ⓘ William Harvey ⓘ medieval medicine ⓘ
influencedBy	Aristotle ⓘ Hippocrates ⓘ Plato ⓘ
knownFor	Galenic corpus of medical writings ⓘ anatomical dissections of animals ⓘ experiments on the nervous system ⓘ systematizing Greco-Roman medicine ⓘ theory of pneuma ⓘ theory of the four humors ⓘ
languageOfWork	Ancient Greek ⓘ
legacy	dominant authority in European medicine for over a millennium ⓘ foundation of scholastic medical curricula in medieval universities ⓘ
movement	Galenic medicine ⓘ
name	Galen self-link ⓘ
nativeName	Γαληνός ⓘ
occupation	anatomist ⓘ medical researcher ⓘ pharmacologist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ physiologist ⓘ surgeon ⓘ
servedAs	court physician to Roman emperors ⓘ physician to gladiators in Pergamon ⓘ
textsPreservedIn	Arabic translations ⓘ Greek manuscripts ⓘ Latin translations ⓘ
treated	Marcus Aurelius ⓘ
wroteAbout	anatomy ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ pharmacology ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ physiology ⓘ

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

von Galen → nameElement → Galen ⓘ

John Galen Howard → middleName → Galen ⓘ

Avicenna → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Democritus → influenced → Galen ⓘ

Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

subject surface form: Al-Zahrawi

Generation of Animals → influenced → Galen ⓘ

Ibn al-Nafis → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Al-Razi (Rhazes) → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

subject surface form: Al-Razi

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

subject surface form: Ibn al-Haytham

Galen → name → Galen self-link ⓘ

Galen → fullName → Galen self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aelius Galenus

Galen → fullName → Galen self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Claudius Galenus

Andreas Vesalius → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Hippocrates → influenced → Galen ⓘ

Toledo School of Translators → translatedAuthor → Galen ⓘ

Outbreak of Antonine Plague → documentedBy → Galen ⓘ

Outbreak of Antonine Plague → describedIn → Galen ⓘ

this entity surface form: writings of Galen

Roman medicine → hasImportantFigure → Galen ⓘ

Galenic medicine → associatedWith → Galen ⓘ

this entity surface form: Galen of Pergamon

Galenic medicine → codifiedBy → Galen ⓘ

Ibn al-Baytar → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Ibn al-Quff → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Ibn Zuhr → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

Abu Ali → influencedBy → Galen ⓘ

subject surface form: Avicenna