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Past Member

Ottó Sándor Gecser

Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

History of Medicine 
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Ottó Gecser is studying the interplay between religious and medical views on pestilence from the Black Death until the sixteenth century. Currently he is focusing on how Observant Franciscan authors reacted to medical explanation and advice increasingly made available for a wider public through plague tracts.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Spring

Degrees

Central European University, Budapest
Ph.D.
2007