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Anne Grons is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg. She specializes in Coptic medical and pharmaceutical traditions, focusing on late antique and early Islamic Egypt. Her work bridges historical linguistics, pharmacological practices, and manuscript studies.
- PhD in Foreign Language Philologies (2022), University of Marburg
- Master of Arts in Languages and Cultures of Egypt (2015), University of Münster
- Bachelor of Arts in Ancient Cultures of Egypt (2013), University of Münster
Her research investigates cryptographic strategies in Coptic medical recipes, cross-cultural knowledge transfer, and the contextualization of pharmacological texts. She employs interdisciplinary methods to analyze plant-based remedies, mineral ingredients, and lexicographical exchanges between Greek and Coptic traditions.
Recent publications highlight her expertise in:
- Coptic pharmacological text standardization
- Contextualizing medical papyri
- Encryption in Coptic recipes
- Comparative materia medica studies
- Language contact in Egypt
- Historical effectiveness of ancient treatments
She received the Rudolf Schmitz Study Foundation Prize (2022) for her groundbreaking dissertation on Coptic medical texts. Grons contributes to international collaborations like the Coptic Magical Papyri project and the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt initiative.
