1928 born in Borne (Overijssel) on May 28 1954 final examinations in medicine 1956-1961 specialization in psychiatry 1961-1978 psychiatrist at the

Deltaziekenhuis, Poortugaal 1974 PhD Indology under the supervision of J. Gonda, Utrecht University 1978-1986 associate professor Indology, Groningen University 1978-1988 psychiatrist at the Van Mesdagkliniek, Groningen 1988 retirement

Special activities and positions * Editor of An annotated bibliography of Indian medicine (ABIM), 2003* Chief-editor of the eJournal of Indian medicine (eJIM), 2007* Member of the editorial board of the Groningen Oriental Studies *

Chairman of the European Ayurvedic Society, 1983-2001

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Developments in traditional Indian nosology: the emergence of new diseases in post-classical times. In: Hans Jochem Diesfeld (ed.), Health research in developing countries, Frankfurt am Main-Bern (Medizin in Entwicklungs-lndern 11), pp. 117-128. Some notes on Brahmadeva's activity as a commentator. Ancient Science of Life 2,1: 7-10, pdf. 1983 Dmodara's rogyacintmai. Ancient Science of Life 3,1: 24-26, pdf. 1984 Editor of: Proceedings of the international workshop on priori-ties in the study of Indian medicine, held at the State University of Groningen, 23-27 October 1983 , Groningen (Publikaties van het Instituut voor Indische talen en culturen 4). Introduction. Ibid., pp. Priorities in the study of Indian medicine. Ibid., pp. 13-20. The surveying of Sanskrit medical literature. Ibid., pp. 31-114. Comments on the 'Surveying of Sanskrit medical literature'. Ibid., pp. 115-120. Gayadasa. Ancient Science of Life 4,1: 28-31, pdf. 1985 The garden cress in Indian medicine. Ancient Science of Life 5,1: 40-41, pdf. Some notes on the history and identity of kacaa. JREIM 4,3/4: 51--56 1987

and Dominik Wujastyk (eds), Studies on Indian medical history : papers presented at the international workshop on the study of Indian medicine held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 24 September 1985 , Groningen: Forsten (Groningen Oriental Studies 2). Reflections on the basic concepts of Indian pharmacology. In: G.J. Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk (eds), Studies on Indian medical history, Groningen, pp. 1-17. 1988 Nachtrag zu: R.P. Das (ed.), Das Wissen von der Lebensspanne der Bume: Suraplas Vkyurveda, kritisch ediert, bers. und komm.; mit einem Nachtrag von G. Jan Meulenbeld zu seinem Verzeichnis "Sanskrit names of plants and their botanical equivalents", Stuttgart (Alt-und neu-indische Studien 34), pp. 1989 The search for clues to the chronology of Sanskrit medical texts, as illustrated by the history of bhag. SII 15, 59-70. 1990 Conformities and divergences of basic yurvedic concepts in veterinary texts. JEAS 1: 1-6. 1991 Editor of: Medical Literature from India, Sri Lanka and Tibet, Leiden (Panels of the VIIth world Sanskrit conference, Kern Institute, Leiden: August 23-29, 1987, vol. 8). The constraints of theory in the evolution of nosological classifications: a study on the position of blood in Indian medicine (yurveda). In: G.J. Meulenbeld (ed.) 1991, pp. 91-106. Kagaku - Igaku Shiryo Kenkyu. Document Research in Science and Medicine 210 (Nov. 15, 1991): 1-12. 1992 Mdhava's works on nidna and cikits. In: P.V. Sharma (ed.), History of medicine in India: (from antiquity to 1000 A.D.), New Delhi, pp. 243-257. The characteristics of a doa. JEAS 2: 1-5.

1995 Et al., yurvedic herbal drugs with possible cytostatic activity. Journal of ethnopharma-cology 47,2: 75-84. The many faces of yurveda. JEAS 4: 1-10. 1997 Aspects of Indian psychiatry. In: Y. Kawakita, S. Sakai and Y. Otsuka (eds), History of psychiatric diagnoses: proceedings of the 16th international symposium on the comparative history of medicine East and West, September 1-8 1991, Susono-shi Shizuoka, Japan , Tokyo, pp. 183-237. 1999 A history of Indian medical literature , 1A (text), 1B (annotation), Groningen: Forsten (Groningen Oriental Studies 15). 2000 A history of Indian medical literature , 2A (text), 2B (annotation), Groningen: Forsten (Groningen Oriental Studies 15). 2002 A history of Indian medical literature , 3 (indexes, corrigenda), Groningen: Forsten (Groningen Oriental Studies 15). 2003 On medicine in the Kauikastra. Traditional South Asian Medicine 7: 186-204. - Review article of: S.S. Bahulkar, Medical ritual in the Atharvaveda tradition, Pune 1994. 2004 yurveda and Atharvaveda: their interrelationship in the commentaries on the Kauikastra. In: E. Ciurtin (ed.), Du corps humain, au carrefour de plusieurs savoirs en Inde: mlanges offerts Arion Rou, Bucarest-Paris ( Studia Asiatica 4-5 , 2003-2004), pp. 289-312. 2007 The Sarasvatnighau - Review article. eJIM 1,1: 19-41. - Review of: S.D. Kamat, Studies on medicinal plants and drugs in Sarasvatnighau, orig. ed. by Late Vd. J.P. Jayatilak in 1918, further ed. with notes and discussions by S.D. Kamat, Delhi 2006 (Chaukhamba Ayurvijnan Studies 74). 2008

The woes of ojas in the modern world. In: Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick M. Smith (eds), Modern and global Ayurveda: pluralism and paradigms, Albany, pp. 157-175. A quest for poison trees in Indian literature, along with notes on some plants and animals of the Kauilya Arthastra. WZKS 51 (2007-2008): 5-75. Some neglected aspects of yurveda or The illusion of a consistent theory, II: The Surutasahit. Traditional South Asian Medicine 8, 16--31 2009 The trees called igru (Moringa sp.), along with a study of the drugs used in errhines , Eelde-Groningen (Supplements to eJIM 1, pdf ). Some neglected aspects of Ayurveda or the illusion of a consistent theory. in: Dominik Wujastyk (ed.), 105--117 2010 The tapitta group of disorders (urticaria and similar syndromes) and its development in yurvedic literature from early times to the present day , Eelde-Groningen (Supplements to eJIM 3, pdf ). Reflections on some oddities of the Carakasahit. In: Eli Franco and Monika Zin (eds), From Turfan to Ajanta: Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Bhairahawa, Rupandehi, 2 vols, pp. 715-724. 2011 Lakmaa's Yogacandrik. In: Bertil Tikkanen and Albion M. Butters (eds), Prvparaprajbhinandanam: Indological and other essays in honour of Klaus Karttunen, Helsinki (Studia Orientalia 110), pp. 121-130. The relationships between doas and dyas: a study on the meaning(s) of the root murch-/mrch. eJIM 4,2: 35-135 . Reversion of a paper read at the Classical Ayurveda Text Study Groups panel The Transmission of Sanskrit Medical Literature in India, convened by Kenneth Zysk in the framework of the International Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference Asian Diversity in a Global Context, University of Copenhagen, from November 12 to 13, 2010.

2012 Mahdevadevas Hikmatpraka: a Sanskrit treatise on Ynn medicine , part I: text and commentary of Section I with an annotated English translation; part II: selected passages from text and commentaries of Section II with an annotated English translation. eJIM 5,2.