Dietrich von Herrath

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Dietrich von Herrath (born March 10, 1940 ) is a German doctor and publicist .

Career

He is the son of the anatomist Ernst von Herrath and brother of the immunologist Matthias von Herrath .

Dietrich von Herrath attended elementary school in Rodheim-Bieber and high school in Giessen . From 1961 to 1967 he studied human medicine at the University of Munich and at the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1968 with H. Coper and H. Herke at the Institute of Pharmacology at the Free University of Berlin as Dr. med. From 1969 to 1974 he trained as an internist with M. Schwab and H. Freiherr von Kress at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin and in 1974 switched to the 2nd Medical Department of the St. Joseph Hospital in Berlin-Tempelhof as a senior physician. He stayed there as a senior nephrologist until his retirement in 2005.

Since it was founded in 1967, Dietrich von Herrath has been a member of the editorial team of the medical journal Der Arzneimittelbrief . This first independent German-language newspaper on drug therapy was founded by Herbert Herxheimer , M.Schwab and HW Spier in 1967. Together with the internist Walter Thimme , von Herrath took over the editing in 1985. He also co-founded the independent consumer magazine Gute Pillen - Bad Pillen in 2005 .

Von Herrath has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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SURNAME Herrath, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1940