Arno Hecht (pathologist)
Arno Hecht (born May 28, 1932 in Gumbinnen , East Prussia ; † July 15, 2014 in Auerbach / Vogtl. ) Was a German pathologist in East Berlin and Leipzig.
Life
From 1950 to 1955, Hecht studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After the compulsory assistant at the Charité and the doctorate to Dr. med. In 1956 he entered the Institute for Pathology at the Charité. Specialist in pathology and pathological anatomy since 1960 , he headed the histochemistry department at the Charité Institute for Pathology from 1961 . In 1963 he completed his habilitation in pathology. He became senior physician in 1964 and was director of research at the Charité from 1970 to 1973. In 1977 he became full professor for pathological anatomy in the medicine department of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. He was involved in the European Group for Research on Cardiac Muscle Metabolism (1968–1975) and in the Council of the European Society for Pathology (1979–1989). He was chairman of the Working Group on Philosophical and Philosophical Problems in Medicine (1980–1985) and sat on the Presidium of the Society for Experimental Medicine of the GDR (1986–1990). After the Leipzig Ordinariate was confirmed in 1991, he was dismissed from university in 1993. He moved to Auerbach, where his wife was from. Retired after three years of unemployment since 1996, he devoted himself to the scientific history of the German Democratic Republic in comparison with the old Federal Republic . He died at the age of 82.
"The change of elite that began in 1990 washed mediocrity and incompetence to the top positions in universities."
Honors
- Honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Pathology (1980)
- Chairman of the Society for Pathology of the GDR (1988–1990)
- Rudolf Virchow Prize (1971)
- Arthur Weber Prize of the German Society for Circulatory Research (1973)
Works
- Introduction to experimental principles of modern cardiac muscle pathology , Jena 1970.
- To be human means to be sick. Discourse on the historical and epistemological environment of human disease , Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 9783895014550 .
- Chronic ischemic heart disease , 2nd edition Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1986.
- Special Pathology , 2nd edition, Berlin 1989.
- The East German - a mistake in social evolution? : or a present without a future . trafo publishing group Dr. Weist, Berlin 2006. ISBN 9783896266149 .
- Conservative continuity and its consequences for the medical science elite of the GDR . trafo publishing group Dr. Weist, Berlin 2008. ISBN 9783896267917 .
- From Pissa to Göltzsch: views and insights of an incorrigible , autobiography. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2014. ISBN 9783897931893 .
editor
- with Kurt Lunzenauer: General Pathology , 5 editions. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit , Berlin and Springer , Vienna New York 1973, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1989. ISBN 3-333-00007-5 .
- Disappointed hopes. Autobiographical reports by scholars from eastern Germany , Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3897931459 .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1992, 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Results of a study on the behavior of the gonadotropic function of the pituitary gland after long-term administration of consistently small doses of estradiol benzoate in younger and older adult male rats .
- ^ Habilitation thesis: The experimental heart attack of the rat. A comparative electron microscopic, fluorescence microscopic and histochemical examination .
- ↑ Leipzig professor catalog
- ↑ Ärzteblatt Sachsen 1/2015
- ↑ Acceptance was not permitted by the GDR authorities.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pike, Arno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hecht, Arno Artur Herbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pathologist, university professor in East Berlin and Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gumbinnen , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th July 2014 |
| Place of death | Auerbach / Vogtl. |