Dieter Janz

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Wolfgang Dietrich Janz (born April 20, 1920 in Speyer ; † December 25, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German neurologist , epileptologist and university professor . He is one of the founders of university epileptology in Germany. His name is particularly associated with the first description of the juvenile myoclonic epilepsy , which was later named after him, especially in the German-speaking countries . In addition, he had a decisive influence on the development of his specialist field in Germany after the Second World War and took a lively part in all developments until his end.

Life

Janz initially studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg , Frankfurt and Prague . After completing his military service, he graduated from the University of Freiburg . The assistantship at the Heidelberg Ludolf Krehl Clinic from 1946 under the neurologist Paul Vogel (1900–1979) was rounded off by study visits to London and Zurich . In Heidelberg, Janz also met Viktor von Weizsäcker and Alexander Mitscherlich . He received his doctorate in 1947 with studies on carotid sinus syndrome and completed his habilitation in 1955 with a thesis on petit mal epilepsies.

In 1961 Janz became an adjunct professor in Heidelberg and in 1973 he was appointed to the newly created chair for neurology at the Charlottenburg Clinic of the Free University of Berlin . He remained director of the neurology department there until his retirement in 1988.

On the occasion of his 90th birthday in April 2010, an academic celebration took place in the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité.

Dieter Janz died on Christmas 2016. The sermon in the funeral service on January 3, 2017 in the Ev. Church in Berlin-Nikolassee held the Ev. Theologian Wolfgang Huber .

Dieter Janz was firmly convinced that "the doctor must learn from his patient because the patient knows best about his illness."

Create

In 1957, Janz and Walter Christian described juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, later also named after Janz, in more detail as a syndrome (impulsive petit-mal). The suggestion of naming it as Janz syndrome came later from another source. Janz himself always referred to earlier descriptions such as the one from 1857 by the French neurologist and psychiatrist Théodore Herpin in his own son.

During his varied clinical-scientific work in epileptology, Janz first drew attention to the teratogenic effects of anti-epileptic drugs and was also one of the first to point out the loss of effectiveness of the birth control pill when taking anti-epileptic drugs at the same time. His epilepsy consultation in Heidelberg became the nucleus of outpatient adult epileptology in Germany.

From 1959 to 1961 Janz was chairman of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE; since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ). From 1973 to 1981 he was Vice President and from 1985 to 1989 Chairman of the Committee on Epilepsy, Genetics, Pregnancy and the Child and from 1989 to 1993 Chairman of the Commission on Genetics, Pregnancy and the Child of the ILAE .

In 1962 he advised the co-editor of the Neue Württembergische Zeitung Fritz Harzendorf on the establishment of the Michael Foundation . Harzendorf was the father of a son with epilepsy. The Michael Foundation, named after him, has become one of the internationally important private initiatives for researching and combating seizure diseases. Janz was Chairman of the Board of Trustees until his death.

During his time in Heidelberg, Dieter Janz worked with the sister school of the University of Heidelberg and its school management Olga von Lersner . He made sure that a position was created for a nurse trained there, which enabled this nurse to work as a bridge nurse both in the neurological university clinic and in the follow-up care of patients in the outpatient area (" Heidelberg Epilepsy Ambulance ") . A closer cooperation between inpatient and community-based nursing and medical care should be created. Here Dieter Janz followed an idea that had already been pursued by the Heidelberg physician Franz Anton Mai (1742–1814), who also trained and deployed nurses as bridging nurses between inpatient and domestic areas. In the so-called "Janz'schen Klinik" (neurology, Charlottenburg Clinic), Janz also created a position for the clinic pastor Gisela Kröger. For him, hospital pastoral care was an integral part of the therapeutic team.

From 1968 to 2004 Janz was on the board of trustees of the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg. From 1985 to 1991 he was chairman of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology.

Even before his retirement, but especially afterwards, Janz devoted himself increasingly to anthropological medicine in the tradition of Viktor von Weizsäcker. He was a co-founder of the Weizsäcker Society, on its founding board and from 1994 to 1997 chairman of the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society, which he co-founded. Co-editor or editor of several of the 10 volumes of Weizsäcker's “Collected Writings”. In recent years he has worked on the edition of his correspondence with von Weizsäcker.

Janz was interested in science until his 1990s and was co-author of original papers, some of which were only published posthumously, in scientific journals, especially on the long-term course of the genetic epilepsy syndromes he characterized with first manifestations in adolescence and young adults.

Awards (selection)

  • 1968: Michael Prize from the Michael Foundation
  • 1969: "Ambassador for Epilepsy" International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)
  • 1990: Honorary member of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology)
  • 1999: "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
  • 2004: Otfrid Foerster Medal of the German Society for Epileptology
  • 2008: "Scientific Award of Distinction" of the 8th European Congress for Epileptology
  • Honorary member of the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society

Works (selection)

  • Dostoyevsky's epileptic figures . a seminar in memoriam Ludwig Binswanger , Alber Verlag, Freiburg / B. 1966.
  • The epilepsies. Special pathology and therapy. G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1969. (2nd, unchanged edition. With a preface by Pierre Genton, Günter Krämer and Peter Wolf. G. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1998)
  • Jesus' encounter with a father and his epileptic son. A sermon on Mark 9: 14–29. In: Sense and Form . 2/2011, pp. 205-210.
  • Matthias Weichelt, Sebastian Kleinschmidt Sovereignty is not taking anything for coincidence. Conversation with Dieter Janz and Matthias Weichelt. In: Sense and Form. 2/2011, pp. 184-204.
  • Happy Science: Minors; Views of a doctor. Conversations with Sebastian Kleinschmidt and Matthias Weichelt. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-396-4 .

literature

  • Rupprecht Thorbecke : Rehabilitation as an essential element of epilepsy treatment: an obituary for Dieter Janz. In: ideas. The newspaper of the German Epilepsy Association No. 141, 1st quarter 2017, pp. 34–40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. med. Dieter Janz . Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 7, 2017 ( Lebenwege.faz.net [accessed November 20, 2019]).
  2. ↑ P. Wolf: Obituary for Professor emeritus Dr. med. Wolfgang Dietrich Janz (April 20, 1920 - December 25, 2016). In: Z Epileptol. Volume 30, 2017, pp. 79-80.
  3. ^ W. Rimpau: Dieter Janz was 85. In: Berliner Ärzte. Volume 42, 2005, p. 26. (PDF)
  4. ↑ U. Hempel: "The sight of man from within". Interview with Professor Dr. med. Dieter Janz. In: Berlin doctors. Volume 44, 2007, pp. 29-32. (PDF)
  5. ↑ Dieter Janz: On the pathogenesis of the central carotid sinus syndrome: hemispherical atrophy after traumatic aneurysm of the carotid sinus. Dissertation . Heidelberg 1947.
  6. ↑ Dieter Janz: The Petit Mal Epilepsies. Habilitation thesis . Heidelberg 1955.
  7. ^ Günter Krämer : Small Lexicon of Epileptology. Thieme, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-13-133831-8 , p. 151 (digitized version )
  8. ↑ Christine Boldt: “How people deal with themselves and with others” - Academic celebration for the 90th birthday of Professor Dieter Janz, Emeritus for Neurology at the Free University. In: fu-berlin.de. April 27, 2010, accessed February 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Huber: Sermon in the funeral service for Prof. Dr. med. Dieter Janz. (PDF; 82 kB) In: wolfganghuber.info. January 3, 2017, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  10. ^ Memories of Dieter Janz - Film. In: stiftung-michael.de. Catlinafilm Berlin 2017, accessed on April 26, 2020 (length: 39:40 min.).
  11. ↑ D. Janz, W. Christian: Impulsive-Petit mal. In: Dtsch Z Nervenheilk. Volume 176, 1957, pp. 346-386. doi: 10.1007 / BF00242439 .
  12. ↑ A. Matthes : Epilepsy Primer. G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1969, p. 37 .
  13. ↑ Herpin T .: Des Accès incomplets d'epilepsy. JB Baillière et Fils, Paris / London / New York / Madrid 1867.
  14. ↑ D. Janz, U. Fuchs: Are anti-epileptic drugs harmful during pregnancy? In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. Volume 89, 1964, pp. 241-248. PMID 14158990 .
  15. ↑ D. Janz, D. Schmidt: Anti-epileptic drugs and failure of oral contraceptives. In: Lancet. Volume 1, 1974, p. 1113. PMID 4135275
  16. ^ Rupprecht Thorbecke: Obituary for Dieter Janz. In: “ Ideas. “Membership magazine of the German Epilepsy Association, January 2017, The Heidelberg Epilepsy Ambulance. P. 35. Obituary by Rupprecht Thorbecke , accessed on March 27, 2017.
  17. ↑ Heidelberg University, The Rector (Ed.): HAInews Newsletter 1/2017 , p. 7; Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  18. ↑ Kerstin Prückner: "... from the field of the entire healing arts" - The "Heidelberger Klinische Annalen" and the "Medicinische Annalen". A medical journal between natural philosophy and natural science . Inaugural dissertation. Heidelberg University. 2002, p. 7 ( online [accessed February 26, 2019]).
  19. ↑ Mechthilde Kütemeyer: Neurology and Psychosomatics. Memories of the Janz Clinic. In: Rainer-ME Jacobi, Peter C. Clausser, Peter Wolf (ed.): The truth of the encounter. Anthropological Perspectives in Neurology, Festschrift for Dieter Janz. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, pp. 191–213, especially about the clinic pastor Gisela Kröger, p. 197.
  20. ↑ Viktor von Weizsäcker: Collected writings in ten volumes. Edited by Peter Achilles, Dieter Janz, Martin Schrenk and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1986-2005.
  21. ↑ P. Senf, B. Schmitz, M. Holtkamp, ​​D. Janz: Prognosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 45 years after onset: seizure outcome and predictors. In: Neurology. Volume 81, 2013, pp. 2128-2133.
  22. ↑ M. Holtkamp, ​​AB Kowski, H. Merkle, D. Janz: Long-term outcome in epilepsy with grand mal on awakening: forty years of follow-up. In: Ann Neurol. Volume 75, 2014, pp. 298-302.
  23. ↑ M. Holtkamp, ​​P. Senf, A. Kirschbaum, D. Janz: Psychosocial long-term outcome in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. In: Epilepsia. Volume 55, 2014, pp. 1732-1738.
  24. ↑ BJ Vorderwülbecke, AB Kowski, A. Kirschbaum, H. Merkle, P. Senf, D. Janz, M. Holtkamp: Long-term outcome in adolescent-onset generalized genetic epilepsies. In: Epilepsia. Volume 58, 2017, pp. 1244-1250.
  25. ↑ Honorary Members. In: viktor-von-weizsaecker-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Sebastian Kleinschmidt: Sovereignty is not taking anything for coincidence. Reading sample from "Sinn und Form", issue 2/2011. In: sinn-und-form.de. Academy of the Arts, accessed August 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Janz, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janz, Dietrich; Janz, Wolfgang Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2016
Place of death Berlin