G. E. R. Lloyd
Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, often GER Lloyd ( born January 25, 1933, Swansea, South Wales ) is a British classical scholar and historian of science. He is the Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute of the University of Cambridge and was between 1989 and 2000 Masters at Darwin College Cambridge. His research interests are in science, philosophy and medicine in ancient history, especially in the comparative analysis of ancient Greek and Chinese science history.
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Life
Geoffrey Lloyd was born in 1933 in Swansea. His father was a doctor and went to London as a specialist in tuberculosis.
Training
Due to several war-related change of location visited Geoffrey Lloyd up to the age of 12, six different schools. Then he followed his brother, who was head boy there, on the elitist Charterhouse School in Surrey. From the private school and its altphilologischen orientation with its emphasis on athletic skills, he was extremely disappointed - in the novels by Frederic Raphael and Simon Raven, he later found the school, as he had experienced it, not again. Lloyd defied in his words, anti-intellectual attitude of the school, join a poetry group joined and studied intensively mathematics. At seventeen, he tried in vain to come to Oxford. He stayed at the Charterhouse School and learned in his last year of school at Wilfrid Noyce Italian, 1953 Member of Erstbesteigungsteam of Mount Everest. Classics he chose from last year and studied history instead.
His subsequent change to the King's College, University of Cambridge was for Lloyd, as he said in a 2005 interview, compared to Charterhouse an absolute exemption ( "absolute liberation "). Here he became a member of the former, founded in 1820 intellectual secret society Cambridge Apostles. Under the influence of John Raven, he developed at King's College a special interest in the philosophy of the pre-Socratics. The years 1954/55 he spent in Athens, where he learned the game on the next Modern Greek bouzouki. Later he turned to the Greek medical history.
Scientific career
Lloyds Dissertation with Geoffrey Kirk reflects his keen interest in ancient Greek philosophy and anthropology. The investigation into the structures of the polarity and analogy in Greek thought, he published in 1966 in a revised version under the title Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of reasoning in Early Greek Thought.
1958 Lloyd was called up for National Service and was stationed during the EOKA uprising on at this time British-occupied Cyprus. On his return to Cambridge in 1960 talks inspired him with the ethno sociologist Edmund Leach, to deal intensively with the new theory of Claude Lévi -Strauss to ethnological structuralism. In 1965, he was with the support of the Ancient Historian Moses I. Finley assistant lecturer at Cambridge. In 1983 he became professor of ancient philosophy and science. A recurring element in his scientific approach was the question of what impact had the political discourse on the scientific discourse in ancient Greece.
Lloyd held lecture tours in various European countries. In 1981 he was a Fellow of the " Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" in Tokyo. After a visiting professorship ( visiting professor ) at Peking University in 1987, Lloyd increasingly engaged in the Classical Chinese. From this he gained a perspective on his recent work, which, based on Joseph Needham's pioneering studies of Chinese science history, examine the influence of the respective political cultures to the scientific discourse in ancient China and Greece compared. He also compared the development of medicine in the two cultures ( The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece, 2002).
1989 appointed him to the Cambridge Darwin College to the master and named him after his retirement in 2000 as an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ). Among his pupils there was also the Israeli classical scholar, philosopher of science, science and mathematics historian Reviel, who earned his doctorate in 1995 at Lloyd as British Council Fellow. 1991 Lloyd went for a visiting professor at Tohoku University Sendai, Japan. In 2001, he was the first " Zhu Kezhen Visiting Professor " for the History of Science at the Beijing " Institute for the History of Natural Science ." From 1992 to 2002, Lloyd was also Chairman of the East Asian History of Science trust the University of Cambridge, who has risen in the Needham Research Institute. Since 2002 he is a Senior Scholar -in-residence at the Institute. Lloyd now spends a large part of the year in Spain, where he continues to work scientifically. So he published in 2007 studies on unity and diversity of the human spirit under the title Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind. 2009 followed in the Oxford University Press his comparative cultural studies of formation of elites, education and innovation: Disciplines in the making: cross-cultural perspectives on Elites, Learning and Innovation.
Honors and Awards
1983 chose the British Academy Geoffrey Lloyd Fellow. 1987 awarded him the History Founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson of Science Society ( HSS) with the George Sarton Medal from, a highly prestigious award for the History of Science. 1995 took him the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 the International Academy for the History of Science on as an honorary member. Likewise, in 1997 he was appointed Knight, so his name has since been preceded by the title of nobility "Sir". In 2001 he received the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies of the British Academy. 2013 Lloyd was awarded the Dan David Prize.
Publications
Geoffrey Lloyd serves on the advisory board of ten scientific journals, including History and Philosophy of Science, Journal for the History of Astronomy, physique, History of the Human Sciences, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, as well as endoxa Antiquorum Philosophia. He has published over 140 articles and many book reviews as well. He published four books and has published 19 books herself, including: