Benno Runnebaum

Benno Runnebaum (* 1933 in Rüschendorf (Damme) ) is a German gynecologist , obstetrician and reproductive medicine specialist .

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Benno Runnebaum was born in Rüschendorf, a district of Damme in Lower Saxony . He completed his medical studies at the Universities of Münster , Bonn and Cologne . He received his doctorate in Cologne in 1962 with the grade summa cum laude . He then spent a year at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City , where he researched steroid hormones . After his return from the USA , he worked as a doctor and scientist at the University Women's Clinic of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1964 . Here he completed his specialist training under Josef Zander in 1969 and completed his habilitation with a thesis entitled "Identification and quantitative determination of progesterone, 20a-dihydroprogesterone in the human uterine muscle during pregnancy". In 1970 Runnebaum followed his teacher Zander to Munich to the gynecological clinic on Maistraße at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he was appointed senior physician and private lecturer . As early as 1971 he moved back to Heidelberg University and became head of the department for gynecological endocrinology . In 1973 he was appointed professor and in 1975 medical director of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Fertility Disorders. He headed the department until his retirement in 1998. Since then he has been running a private practice in Heidelberg .

With his wife Hedwig and son Ingo B. Runnebaum , he founded the Runnebaum Foundation in 2008 , which is dedicated to the targeted and individual promotion of talented female academics in the fields of medicine and natural sciences to improve equal opportunities in Germany.

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Benno Runnebaum published more than 450 original scientific papers. He has published a total of twelve books and contributed 87 book chapters.

• Benno Runnebaum: Identification and quantitative determinations of progesterone, 20 _1hnα-Hydroxy-Pregn-4-EN-3-ON, 20 β-Hydroxy-Pregn-4-EN-3-ON and 17 _1hnα-Hydroxy-progesterone in the plasma of human Placental blood. Dissertation , University of Cologne 1962
• Benno Runnebaum: Identification and quantitative determination of progesterone, 20a-dihydroprogesterone in the human uterine muscle during pregnancy. Habilitation , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1969
• Thomas Rabe , Benno Runnebaum: Contraception: Methods, Indication, Contraindication. Springer Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-540-11132-8
• Benno Runnebaum (Ed.): Secretion and action of gonadotropins: physiology and clinic. Springer Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-540-13854-4
• Benno Runnebaum, Thomas Rabe (ed.): Gynecological endocrinology: basics, physiology, pathology, prophylaxis, diagnostics, therapy. Springer Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-540-17055-3
• Benno Runnebaum (Ed.): Female contraception: update and trends. Springer Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-540-19396-0
• Thomas Rabe, Benno Runnebaum (Eds.): Fertility control - update and trends. Springer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-540-64763-5

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Ernst Laqueur medal
• Carl Kaufmann Medal
• Honorary doctorate from Semmelweis University Budapest ( Hungary )
• Honorary doctorate from the Medical and Pharmaceutical University Iuliu Hațieganu in Cluj-Napoca ( Romania )

literature

• Günther Kindermann: Laudatory speech on the award of the Carl Kaufmann Medal. In: Günther Kindermann: Diversity and Unity - Science and Conscience: Report of the 53rd DGGG Congress, June 13-16, 2000 in Munich. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2001, ISBN 313105901X , p. 10 in the Google Book Search

Web links

• Runnebaum Foundation
• Birthdays. Dtsch Arztebl 1998; 95 (43), A-2718 (there erroneously stated September 25, 1933 as the birthday and "Rüschdorf" as the place of birth)