Michael Stolberg

Michael Stolberg (born April 2, 1957 in Munich ) is a German medical historian .

Life

After graduating from the Landschulheim Marquartstein, Michael Stolberg studied medicine in Munich and then worked at Munich hospitals. In 1986 he received his doctorate with a thesis on medical history under Christian Probst . After two years of research in Italy, he was from 1989 to 1995 research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Sociology at the Technical University of Munich, where he in 1992 for History of Medicine and Medical Sociology habilitation was. In 1994 he completed a second degree in history and philosophy with a doctorate.

After a six-month research stay in Venice, he worked from 1996 to 1998 as a DFG Heisenberg fellow at the Department for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge , England, and then returned to Munich. Since 2004 he has held the chair for the history of medicine at the University of Würzburg , where he succeeded Gundolf Keil . In 2005 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 2006 to 2012 he was deputy chairman of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology. From 2009 to 2014 he was the managing editor of the Medical History Journal.

Services

After many years of research into the history of epidemics and the environment in the 19th century, Michael Stolberg has focused, since the late 1990s, on the medical, physical and gender history of the early modern period and, since 2005, on the history of palliative medicine and medical ethics . He has initiated a number of research projects and, among other things, has headed the long-term project "Early Modern Doctor's Letters" of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2009 .

Publications (selection)

• A right to clean air? Environmental conflicts at the beginning of the industrial age. Harald Fischer Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-89131-112-5 .
• Cholera in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Fears, interpretations and reactions in the face of a deadly disease. ecomed-Verlag, Landsberg 1995, ISBN 978-3-609-64910-8 .
• History of homeopathy in Bavaria (1800-1914). Karl F. Haug Fachbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8304-7025-0 .
• Homo patiens. Body and disease experience in the early modern period. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-16202-3 .
• The urination. A cultural and everyday story. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2009, ISBN 3-412-20318-1 .
• The history of palliative medicine. Medical care for the dying from 1500 until today. Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-940529-79-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Stolberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Stolberg on the website of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Michael Stolberg (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.