András Bácskay

András Bácskay holds a PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2008), where he was Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2005. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest between 2009 and 2018, where, after his habilitation, he became Associate Professor (2018).

The Project

Dermatology in the Babylonian medicine. The Diseases of the Skin and their Treatments According to Medical Texts from Mesopotamia.

Hosting institution: Collège de France

Fellowship: Directeur d'études associé (DEA) programme | FMSH

Selective bibliography

• Glosses and Embedded Variants in Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts. (dubsar 22) Münster: Zaphon Verlag, 2021. 
• « Medical and magical texts in UET vol. IV » Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 38 (2021), 57-67.
• « Medical Treatments against Respiratory Diseases, Ear Complaints and Migraine: an Edition of a Late Babylonian Medical Compendium Tablet, BM 32277+ » Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 115 (2021), 159-174.
• « Prescriptions against bu’šānu-disease from two Neo-Babylonian tablets » Akkadica 142/2 (2021), 191-210.
• « Prescriptions against ‘hand-of-ghost’ and fever. An edition of BM 41300 » Archiv für Orientforschung 54 (2021), 283-292.