Detlef B. Linke

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Detlef Bernhard Linke (born November 2, 1945 in Hohenfinow -Struwenberg ( Brandenburg ) (on the run); † February 6, 2005 ) was a German brain researcher .

Linke studied medicine , philosophy and communication science . He did his doctorate on psychomotor epilepsy and wrote his habilitation thesis on the language centers of the brain .

Linke worked at the University of Bonn in the Department of Brain Research and Neuroscience . There he was head of the department for neurophysiology and neurosurgical rehabilitation since 1982 . Linke became known to the public through a series of popular science books in which he repeatedly criticized reductionism in particular .

Linke was co-editor of Ethica magazine . Science and responsibility .

Books and CDs (selection)

  • Parallelism of brain and soul (with M. Kurten), Stuttgart 1988
  • Brain transplant. The first immortality on earth , Reinbek near Hamburg 1993
  • Art and Brain , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2002
  • Religion as a Risk , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2003
  • The Times of the Brain [audio CD] , Cologne Supposé, 2004
  • The brain - key to infinity , Freiburg i. Brsg .: Herder, 2004
  • Freedom and the brain , Munich: Beck, 2005, ISBN 9783499621222
  • Hölderlin as a brain researcher , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​2005
  • Europe and the Martians [audio CD] , Cologne: Supposé, 2005

literature

  • Caspar Söling: The brain-soul problem. Neurobiology and Theological Anthropology. Paderborn u. a. 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Linke, Detlef B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linke, Detlef Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brain researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenfinow , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2005