Prof. Burnett – Warburg Institute on the History of Astrology

Talk with Prof. Dr. Charles Stuart Freeman Burnett – Warburg Institute – 19. August 2025

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*26. September 1951 – Prof. Charles Burnett is one of the Leading Authorities on the transmission of knowledge from the Arabic-speaking world into medieval Europe, especially in Science, Philosophy and Astrology. – During his childhood, Charles Burnett lived in East Africa, where his father taught at a mission school. During this time, Charles Burnett was also exposed to the East African language Swahili, which is partly influenced by Arabic. Burnett mentioned that learning Arabic reminded him of his time in East Africa and of the language his father used there. His father was of British origin and worked in missionary education.

BA – Student in Cambridge 1969 till May 1972 – He completed a Bachelor’s degree (BA) in the Classical Tripos at University of Cambridge in May 1972.

He earned his PhD in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge in June 1976

Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge from 1976 to 1979

Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute from 1979 to 1982. He served as a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield (1982–1984 and 1985), interrupted by a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1984–1985). In April 1985, he was appointed Lecturer in the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and was promoted to Research Professor in 1999 – sort of „Chair of Medieval Science and Philosophy“. Since 1998, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/charles-burnett-FBA/?utm_source=chatgpt.com – Professor Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London – 2024 Emeritus. – He is a leading scholar on medieval Islamic science and its transmission into Europe. – https://research.london.ac.uk/search/staff/136/professor-charles-burnett – https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/team/11?utm_source=chatgpt.com