Autor/-in: Mathieu Ossendrijver

Mathieu Ossendrijver is a historian of ancient science based at the Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World at Freie Universität Berlin. He is trained as an Assyriologist (PhD Univ. of Tübingen) and astrophysicist (PhD Univ. of Utrecht). His research focuses on Babylonian astral science (astronomy, astrology) and mathematics, institutional and other contextual aspects of Babylonian scholarship, and cross-cultural transformations of knowledge between Babylonia, Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.