Alfons Labisch

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Alfons Labisch (born October 20, 1946 in Jever ) is a German historian , sociologist , physician and emeritus professor of medical history .

Life

Alfons Labisch studied history, social sciences, philosophy, Latin and medicine at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Cologne . After graduating as Dr. phil. in Ancient History in Aachen in 1974 he completed his studies in sociology with a Magister Artium as well as medical studies with a license to practice medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1982 in Aachen. med. As early as 1979, Labisch was appointed professor for health policy and medical sociology at the University of Kassel , where he completed his habilitation in 1990. In 1991, Labisch was offered the chair for the history of medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Since 1993 he has also been a second member of the Philosophical Faculty and positioned Düsseldorf's medical history as an interdisciplinary link between the medical and philosophical faculties.

In 1997 he was the first continental European to be elected President of the Society for the Social History of Medicine in London. From 1997 to 2000 he was chairman of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology. V. In 2004, Labisch was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and was chairman of Section 23 Medicine and History of Science from 2010–2015 and deputy from 2011–2015. Class IV speaker in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences .

From 1998 to 2002 Labisch was vice dean, from 2002 to 2003 dean of the medical faculty. During this time, the new license to practice medicine was introduced, combined with a reform of medical studies. From 2003 to 2008 Labisch held the office of Rector of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHUD). During his term of office, the university became independent as a public corporation under the University Freedom Act that came into force in 2007. As part of his university policy activities, Labisch was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Leipzig from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator of the Leibniz Science Association from 2006 to 2010. He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Forschungszentrum Jülich from 2005 to 2013 . In February 2015 he was relieved of his duties as a university professor and acted as a temporary substitute for his chair until the turn of the year. Since then he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Hiller Rheumatology Foundation at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, which founded the research center of the same name on January 9, 2015 in cooperation with the Medical Faculty and the University Hospital.

Labisch is intensely committed to the cooperation with Japanese and Chinese partner universities of the HHUD and in 2009 received the Order of the Rising Sun “with star, gold and silver [n] for his“ great commitment to the promotion of German-Japanese relations and Japanese studies ” ] Rays ”. In particular, he was instrumental in founding the Confucius Institute in Düsseldorf and has headed the sponsoring association of this Chinese cultural institute since 2009. In 2007 he became an overseas member, in 2009 a senior consultant and in 2011 an honorary member of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, Hanban Beijing (PR China) . As a historian, he cooperates in particular with the Institute for Global History at Beijing Foreign Studies University, which was also founded in Beijing in 2014 . The Beijing Foreign Studies University appointed Alfons Labisch its honorary professor in December 2016.

In Germany, Alfons Labisch campaigned for the establishment of a conference and study center of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and accompanied this development as spokesman for the board and advisory board of the Leopoldina Center for Science Research in Halle / Saale.

Research priorities

Labisch has published numerous papers in the field of the social history of public health and hospital services. Further research focuses on long-term developments in the interrelationship between health, medicine and society, using the example of malaria research, including the historical and current conditions of medical thought and action. For several years, Labisch has been concerned with the transfer of knowledge between Europe and East Asia from a long-term perspective and with different concepts of modernity. The comparative social and cultural history of physical activity as well as the history of science in movement research form a new field of research.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Lines of development and developmental moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany (= series of publications of the Academy for Public Health. Vol. 13, 1.2). Düsseldorf 1985, in 2 partial volumes.
  • as ed. with Reinhard Spree: Medical interpretive power in the social change of the 19th and early 20th century. Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-88414-103-1 .
  • with Florian Tennstedt: Health Department or Public Health Department? On the development of the public health service since 1933. In: Norbert Frei (Hrsg.): Medicine and health policy in the Nazi era. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1991 (= writings of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue), ISBN 3-486-64534-X , pp. 35–66.
  • Homo hygienicus. Health and Medicine in Modern Times. Frankfurt a. M. 1992, ISBN 3-593-34528-5 .
  • as edited by Reinhard Spree: Each patient in a hospital has his own bed. On the social history of the general hospital in Germany in the 19th century. Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3-593-35396-2 .
  • as ed. with Reinhard Spree: Hospital Report 19th Century. Hospital sponsors, hospital finance, hospital patients. Frankfurt a. M. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36927-3 .
  • as ed. with Norbert Paul: historicity: experience and action, history and medicine. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08507-6 .
  • The secular upheavals in the worlds of life and science and medicine - medical action in the 21st century [reprint; also 3 perspective essays each on the subject of medical history and on universities]. In: Jörg Vögele (Ed.) Retrospectives - Perspectives: The Institute for the History of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 1991 to 2011 . Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-943460-24-7 .
  • as ed. with Cord Eberspächer and Xuetao Li: Knowledge exchange and modernization processes between Europe, Japan and China (= Acta historica Leopoldina. Vol. 69). Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8047-3706-8 .
  • with Heiner Fangerau : Pest and Corona. Pandemics in the past, present and future. Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-451-82167-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfons Labisch: History of Public Health - History in Public Health. Looking back and looking forward. Presidential Address . In: Social History of Medicine . tape 11 , 1998, ISSN  0951-631X , doi : 10.1093 / shm / 11.1.1 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Alfons Labisch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  3. ^ Alfons Labisch: Autonomy of the University - a model for the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In: The Rector of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (ed.): Yearbook of the Heinrich Heine University 2004 , Düsseldorf 2005, pp. 19–32.
  4. ^ Uni Düsseldorf: Retirement: Prof. Dr. Dr. Alfons Labisch, MA ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 5
  5. ↑ HILLER RESEARCH CENTER. In: www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Japanese Consulate General in Düsseldorf . Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  7. ↑ Imprint of the Confucius Institute Düsseldorf. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  8. ^ Institute for World History founded in Beijing. In: munich.china-consulate.org. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Leopoldina website: Member in focus: Honorary professorship for Alfons Labisch , accessed on January 21, 2017.
  10. ^ Jörg Hacker (ed.): Bridge builders. The Leopoldina Study Center for the History of Science and Academies: program, profile, projects. (=  Acta Historica Leopoldina . No. 66 ). Knowledge Verl.-Ges., Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8047-3272-8 ( leopoldina.org ).
  11. ^ Leopoldina Study Center. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Alfons Labisch: Species Sanitation of Malaria in the Netherlands East Indies (1913-1942) - an example of applied medical history? In: Michael Quarterly. 7, 2010, No. 3, 296-306.
  13. ^ Alfons Labisch: Medical History in Germany today - a personal view. In: Shizu Sakai u. a. (Ed.): Transaction in Medicine & Heteronomous Modernization. Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Tokyo 2009, ISSN  1882-742X , pp. 17-31.
personal data
SURNAME Labisch, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, sociologist, doctor, professor of medical history
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever