Edith Heischkel-Artelt

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Edith Heischkel-Artelt (born February 13, 1906 in Dresden ; † August 1, 1987 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German doctor, philologist and medical historian.

Life

Heischkel studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1931 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a dissertation in medical history . 1938 habilitation they are at the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin , where she worked as a lecturer from the 1939th In 1945 she received her doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Berlin. When asked about Diepgen's successor to the Chair of Medical History in Berlin in 1944, she was one of the candidates.

During the time of National Socialism , she worked as a Hitler Youth doctor and girl ring leader for the Association of German Girls . She belonged to the NSDAP , the NSV and the NS-Lecturer Association .

After establishing the Medical Faculty of the University of Mainz in the winter semester of 1946/47, Heischkel-Artelt set up the medical history institute there together with her teacher Paul Diepgen and was made an extraordinary professor in 1948 and a full professor in 1962 . She headed the institute until her retirement in 1974. In 1960 she was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

With Walter Artelt , Heinz Goerke and Gunter Mann (1924–1992) Heischkel was editor of the medical historical journal .

Edith Heischkel-Artelt was married to the medical historian Walter Artelt . The Edith Heischkel mentoring program for the “promotion of doctorates in medicine and dentistry as well as doctorates in natural sciences, humanities and social sciences at Mainz University Medical Center” was named after her. In 2018, the mentoring program was renamed, not least against the background that details about Heischkel-Artelt's behavior during the National Socialist era and especially afterwards became known.

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • The medical historiography in the XVIII. Century. Brill, Leiden 1931 (dissertation, medical faculty, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1931).
  • with Paul Diepgen : Medicine at the Berlin Charité until the university was founded: A contribution to the history of medicine in the 18th century. Springer, Berlin 1935, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-91096-8 .
  • The history of medicine from its beginnings to the beginning of the 16th century (= treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences. H. 28). Ebering, Berlin 1938 (habilitation thesis, Medical Faculty, University of Berlin, 1938); Reprint: Kraus-Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1977.
  • The German medical journals of the forties of the 19th century as a journalistic guide to a new medicine. OO [1945] (Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty, University of Berlin, 1945).
As editor
  • Paul Diepgen: Medicine and Culture. Collected essays on his 60th birthday on November 24, 1938. Edited by Walter Artelt , Edith Heischkel and Julius Schuster . Enke, Stuttgart 1938.
  • Nutrition and Nutrition in the 19th Century. Lectures at a symposium on January 5 and 6, 1973 in Frankfurt am Main (= studies on the history of medicine in the nineteenth century. Vol. 6). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976.

literature

  • Hans-Heinz Eulner u. a. (Ed.): Medical history in our time. Festival ceremony for Edith Heischkel-Artelt and Walter Artelt on their 65th birthday. Enke, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-432-01698-0 (with bibliography on Edith Heischkel-Artelt and Walter Artelt pp. 457-477).
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 241.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Bruns, Andreas Frewer: History as a political issue: Medical historian Berlin and Graz in the service of the Nazi state, in: Medicine, Society and History, Yearbook of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Volume 24, 2005, p. 170 In second place behind Walter Artelt and ahead of Bernward Gottlieb , who was finally deployed shortly before the end of the war under pressure from the SS.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 241.
  3. ↑ W. Artelt, H. Goerke, E. Heischkel, G. Mann (eds.): Medizinhistorisches Journal. Georg Olms, Hildesheim / New York (Volume 9, 1974).
  4. ^ Edith Heischkel Program - Mentoring in Medicine at the Mainz University Medical Center
  5. ↑ Newsdetail University Medical Center Mainz. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Heischkel-Artelt, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1987
Place of death Frankfurt am Main