translator · scholar
Sergius of Reshaina
Chief physician of Reshaina in Mesopotamia, trained in Alexandria under Ammonius, and the first great translator of Greek medicine into Syriac. Hunayn's Risala names twenty-six works of Galen in his versions, three centuries before Hunayn graded and replaced them. He died in Constantinople.
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- c. 500–536 On Simple Drugs , Greek Syriac · translator attested
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