Berthold Schneider (biometrician)
Berthold Schneider (born August 18, 1932 in Bamberg ) is a German biometrician and professor emeritus. He is considered one of the pioneers in biometrics .
Life
Schneider attended the humanistic New High School in his hometown from 1943 to 1952 and graduated as the best of the year in the Free State of Bavaria. He then studied mathematics, physics, philosophy and biology at the universities of Bamberg , Erlangen , Gießen and Vienna until 1957 . In 1956 Schneider obtained a degree in maths from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with his thesis on a stochastic model for the stimulus and excitation process . The following year he was promoted to Dr. phil. nat. PhD.
Between 1958 and 1960, Schneider worked for the DFG research assignment statistics of finely divided particles at the Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , headed by Hans Rumpf . After that, Schneider worked as a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Giessen until 1963. From 1963 to 1965 Schneider worked in Gießen as curator and head of the department for biometrics at the agricultural faculty. In 1964 he received the license to teach biometrics and biomathematics at the University of Giessen. In 1965 Schneider accepted a call as professor for biometrics and documentation at the newly founded Hannover Medical School (MHH), where he also took over the management of the Institute for Biometry and Medical Informatics, later the Institute for Biometrics and Documentation. At the beginning of the 1970s, the institute had more than 150 employees. In the mid-1970s, Schneider took a leave of absence from his chair for some time and took over the management of the Federal Government's second data processing funding program for medicine, from which DM 0.5 billion was made available for the development of medical information systems. In 2000, Schneider retired from the MHH.
Schneider was from 1967 to 1968 and from 1987 to 1988 Chairman of the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DR). From 1970 to 1971 he was president of the IBS. Schneider was also a member of the computer system commission of the German Research Foundation.
After his farewell lecture, the Catholic undertook a pilgrimage from Kleinburgwedel to Santiago de Compostela from June to August 2000 , about which he published a diary.
Act
Schneider took part in the first biometric colloquia in Bad Nauheim as a student in the 1950s . In 1959 he published his first article on methods of time series theory in biometrics in the first edition of the Biometric Journal.
In the 1960s, Schneider and Eduard von Boguslawski developed the Boguslawski-Schneider Yield Act for the practical forecast of agricultural yields, which is considered a milestone in this field.
In the early years of the MHH, Schneider had a test building built on campus with a huge CDC cyber computer system for the evaluation of biosignals and scientific questions, as well as for the development of systems for medical documentation. When the Institute for Biometry and Medical Informatics moved into its new premises at the beginning of the 1970s, the MHH's largest central hospital computer at the time, an IBM-360/67, to which several peripheral computers in individual institutes and clinics were connected , in operation. In a working group at the specialist conference, Schneider arranged for the subject of biomathematics for physicians to be changed to medical biometrics and was significantly involved in the development of a subject catalog, which later became the subject of epidemiology, medical biometrics and medical informatics .
As a member of an international biometrics group, Schneider was involved in the planning and evaluation of the University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP) in the USA in the late 1960s . The first multicenter, controlled, randomized clinical study for the objective assessment of the effectiveness of diabetes therapies is still regarded today as a methodological model for medical experiment planning and the presentation and evaluation of disease progression.
Via the Commission for Computing Systems of the German Research Foundation, Schneider achieved the inflow of considerable federal funds into the IT equipment of medical research.
1972 was the organizer of the world congress International Biometric Conference (IBC) in Hanover , which was held for the first time in Germany.
Schneider published scientific articles a. a. in the journals Biometrics , Metrika and The Lancet .
Publications
- Study on the application of data processing in medicine , Central Office for Nuclear Energy Documentation, 1972
- Data processing in health care , Springer 1976
- Simulation methods in medicine and biology , Springer 1978
- Medical informatics, biometrics and epidemiology De Gruyter 1997
supporting documents
- CV Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Berthold Schneider at the MHH
- Uwe Feldmann, Hartmut Hecker: Laudation on Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Berthold Schneider: A pioneer of biometrics is celebrating his 75th birthday in the IBS-DR circular 3 / 2007S. 18-20
- Hartmut Hecker, Iris Zöllner: Laudation for Prof. Berthold Schneider on his 75th birthday in messages from GMDS, 3rd quarter 2007, p. 7
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Berthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biometrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |