Dietrich von Engelhardt

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Dietrich von Engelhardt (* 1941 in Göttingen ) is a German science and medical historian . He was director of the Institute for Medical History and Science Research at the University of Lübeck .

Life

Dietrich von Engelhardt is the son of the mineralogist and geologist Wolf von Engelhardt . Dietrich von Engelhardt studied philosophy, history and Slavic studies from 1961 to 1968 at the University of Tübingen , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1969. This was followed by training in criminology and crime therapy. In 1971 he became assistant to Heinrich Schipperges at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heidelberg University, where he completed his habilitation in 1976 and became a professor. From 1983 to 2007 he was Professor of the History of Medicine and General History of Science at the University of Lübeck and from 1993 to 1996 Vice Rector of the University of Lübeck. Among other things, he worked on the German Biographical Encyclopedia by Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus .

From 1998 to 2002 he was acting head of the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich .

In 1995 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 2001 to 2010 he was President of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine and from 2008 to 2011 Vice President of the State Committee for Ethics in South Tyrol. In 2010 he became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . For 2014 he was awarded the Dr. Awarded the Margrit Egnér Foundation . In 2016 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Medal from the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors (GDNÄ).

The neuroscientist Hannah Monyer is one of his PhD students .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hegel and chemistry. Study of the philosophy and science of nature around 1800 . Guido Pressler Verlag, Hürtgenwald, 1976.
  • Historical awareness in natural science: from the Enlightenment to positivism , Orbis academicus , Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg 1979.
  • with Heinrich Schipperges : The Inner Connections between Philosophy and Medicine in the 20th Century , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 1980.
  • Causality and Conditionality in Modern Medicine. In: Heinrich Schipperges (Ed.): Pathogenesis. Basic features and perspectives of a theoretical pathology. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1985, pp. 32-58.
  • Living with the disease. Basics and perspectives of the patient's coping structure. Verlag für Medizin, E. Fischer Heidelberg, 1986.
  • Editor: Ethics in Everyday Medicine: Spectrum of Medical Disciplines , Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1989.
  • Editor: Diabetes in Medical and Cultural History: Basics, Texts and Bibliography. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1989.
  • Thomas Mann and the Sciences , Lübeck 1999.
  • Illness, Pain, and the Art of Living: A Cultural History of Body Experience. CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 1999.
  • Medicine in Modern Literature , Vol. 1–2. Guido Pressler Verlag , Hürtgenwald, 1991/2000.
  • Paracelsus in the judgment of the natural sciences and medicine of the 18th and 19th centuries. Presentation, sources, research literature. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale). Barth Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001.
  • as publisher: Biographical Encyclopedia of German-speaking Physicians. 2 volumes. Munich 2002.
  • Editor with Rainer Wild: Taste cultures. From the dialogue of the senses while eating and drinking. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37727-6 .
  • German-Italian scientific relations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Structures and Dimensions , In: Ingrid Kästner (Ed.): Science communication in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries (= European Science Relations, 1) Shaker-Verlag, Aachen 2009, pp. 7–38.
  • Health, illness, therapy. Friedrich Hölderlin in the context of medicine and philosophy around 1800. In: Annuario Filosofico, Volume 26, 2010/2011, pp. 175–207.

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on behalf of the NTM editorial team: Dietrich von Engelhardt on his 65th birthday . In: NTM 14, 2006, pp. 119-120.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich von Engelhardt - specialist in “Realidealism” , NZZ, September 20, 2008
  2. ↑ Member entry of Dietrich von Engelhardt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen