Alexander Lapin

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Alexander Lapin (born March 3, 1952 in Prague ) is an Austrian chemist , physician , theologian , university lecturer and the first Orthodox military chaplain of the Austrian Armed Forces .

Alexander Lapin in 2012

Career

Alexander Lapin, the Russian ancestors, was born in Prague, attended from 1957 to 1968, the national and secondary school in his hometown, graduated at the Lycée Français de Vienne and then studied chemistry at the University of Vienna , where he 1978 in biochemical analysis and neurochemistry PhD .

From 1975 to 1980 Lapin was an assistant at the Department of Biochemical Psychiatry and did study visits to Germany and Great Britain . In 1976 he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna, which he completed with a doctorate in 1984. He then did military service in the Austrian Armed Forces and worked from 1982 to 1989, after a brief period at the Anatomical Institute, as an assistant and later as a senior physician at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics. He then took over the management of the chemical laboratory at the polyclinic , which was closed after he left the polyclinic.

In 1992 he completed his habilitation in the field of protein diagnostics in clinical nephrology and in 1994 took over the management of the chemical laboratory of the Semmelweis Women's Clinic . In 1998 he was finally appointed head of the laboratory in the Social Medical Center Sophienspital .

Lapin studied Orthodox theology at the University of Prešov and graduated in 2002 with a master's degree . When the Orthodox military chaplaincy was launched in Austria on July 1, 2011, Alexander Lapin took over its leadership.

Lapin teaches the prospective Orthodox religion teachers at the Church of the University of Education in Vienna / Krems . He is married to the doctor Ulrike Lapin and has three grown children.

Publications (selection)

  • Master's thesis “Orthodox Christianity, Bioethics and the Crisis of Modern Scientific Knowledge”, 2002, ISBN 3832463321 , ISBN 9783832463328
  • “Churches and State at a Crossroads? : 1700 years of the Milan Agreement “: Contributions to an event of the Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox military chaplaincy on November 19, 2013 / Institute for Religion and Peace; Christian Wagnsonner, Karl-Reinhart Trauner, Alexander Lapin (eds.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Alexander Lapin in the magazine Der Soldat , accessed on July 29, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Lapin in Die Wiener Allgemeine Polyklinik , accessed on July 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lapin, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist, physician, theologian, university lecturer and Orthodox military chaplain of the Austrian Armed Forces
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague