Edmund Randerath

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Johannes Hermann Josef Edmund Randerath (born March 18, 1899 in Düsseldorf , † March 19, 1961 in Heidelberg ) was a German pathologist and university professor .

Life

Edmund Randerath was the son of the high school principal Edmund Randerath senior (1863-1929) and his wife Johanna, née Pitsch. After finishing his school career, he took part in the First World War from June 1917 to 1919 . He joined in 1920 a volunteer corps to. Since 1919 he has been studying medicine at the University of Marburg, the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf and the University of Cologne and, after passing the state examination in Cologne in 1923, was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After his medical internship, he was an assistant at the Pathological Institute of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf from 1925 to 1932. In Düsseldorf he completed his habilitation with his teacher Paul Huebschmann in 1932 for general and pathological anatomy with a paper on pathological-anatomical studies on tuberculosis of the bone system and then worked there as a private lecturer . From 1936 he was a senior physician. From 1937 he worked as an adjunct professor and from 1939 as an associate professor.

At the time of National Socialism , Randerath belonged to the NSDAP . He also joined the SA in 1933 and the Nazi lecturers' association in 1934 , for which he headed the Office of Science. From 1940 he was also a member of the National Socialist Medical Association . Shortly before the start of the Second World War , he was promoted to senior medical officer in the reserve at the end of August 1939. From 1943 to 1945 he was an advisory pathologist at the Army Sanitary Inspector and also headed the Pathological Institute at the Military Medical Academy . From the end of December 1943 he took on a teaching position at the University of Berlin.

After the end of the war he was an American prisoner of war and after his release he resumed his work at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1947 he became a full professor and head of the Pathological Institute at the University of Göttingen . In 1948 he re-founded the German Society for Pathology . In autumn 1949 he accepted the chair for pathology at the University of Heidelberg , where he was also director of the pathological university institute. In 1953 he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He was also a member of various medical societies and holder of several awards, such as the Otto von Bollinger plaque . During his tenure he was dean of the medical faculty twice and rector in 1956/57.

His main research areas were "histogenesis of tuberculous tissue damage", Bright's disease and epistemological perspectives in "interaction with all other disciplines".

Randerath had been married to Mathilde, née Sachs (1901–1982), since 1926. Their son Kurt (* 1929) also became a university professor.

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia, Poethen – Schlueter. 2nd, revised edition, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 173.
  • Cay-Rüdiger Prüll: Medicine on the dead or on the living? Pathology in Berlin and London, 1900–1945 . Schwabe, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7965-1931-8
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88835-2 , p. 481 f.
  • Wilhelm Doerr : Pathology in Heidelberg. Levels after 1945 , meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, mathematical and natural science class, born 1986, 4th paper, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-540-17389-2 .
  • Wilhelm Doerr: The Pathological Institute . In: Gotthard Schettler (Ed.): The Heidelberg University Clinic and its Institutes: A report by the clinic and departmental directors on the history and tasks of the clinics and institutes at the Heidelberg University Clinic, presented on the 600th anniversary of the University , Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-70863, p. 10ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986 , Berlin 2009, p. 481
  2. ↑ Cay-Rüdiger Prüll: Medicine on the dead or on the living? Pathology in Berlin and in London, 1900–1945 , Berlin 2003, p. 356
  3. ^ A b c Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia, Poethen – Schlueter , Munich 2007, p. 173
  4. ↑ Cay-Rüdiger Prüll: Medicine on the dead or on the living? Pathology in Berlin and in London, 1900–1945 , Berlin 2003, p. 356
  5. ↑ a b Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986 , Berlin 2009, p. 482
  6. ^ Wilhelm Doerr: Pathology in Heidelberg. Levels after 1945 , Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 14
  7. ^ Wilhelm Doerr: The Pathological Institute. In: Gotthard Schettler (Ed.): The Heidelberg University Hospital and its Institutes , Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Randerath, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Randerath, Edmund Johannes Hermann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor; Rector of Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1961
Place of death Heidelberg