Eduard Seidler

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Eduard Seidler (2010 with Paracelsus Medal at the German Medical Congress in Dresden)

Eduard Seidler (born April 20, 1929 in Mannheim ; † December 7, 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German medical historian and university professor . He has made a particular contribution to the reappraisal of the role of medicine in the time of National Socialism .

Life

Seidler was the only son of the merchant Wilhelm Seidler. During the Second World War he was a medic in the Hitler Youth . The emigration and deportation of many of his parents' Jewish friends was a formative event for him.

In 1947 he acquired the French Central Abitur in Mainz , which was part of the French occupation zone , and began studying medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . After completing the physics course , he moved to Paris . He passed the state examination in Heidelberg . He wrote his dissertation on a topic from gynecology . During his further training as a pediatrician , he wrote his first medical-historical work, which was later also carried out by the German Research Foundation(DFG) were funded. He qualified as a professor at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the healing of the Middle Ages in France and received in 1967 a call to the Chair of the History of Medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg . In 1994 he retired . He died in December 2020 at the age of 91 in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Act

Seidler's scientific work focused on the history of paediatrics , the medicine of the late Middle Ages in France, the history of nursing , the history of medical education and the social history of medicine since the 18th century. He has done a great deal of work on models of the doctor-patient relationship .

In 1984 Seidler was involved in the founding of the historical commission of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine , for which he carried out research on the fate of Jewish pediatricians during the Nazi era . Over 750 biographies were indexed for this. Among other things, it became clear that the specialist society concerned has willingly made itself an accomplice by excluding its Jewish members.

Seidler was particularly committed to medical training and the development of medical ethics . From 1979 to 1981 he held the office of vice dean or dean of the medical faculty in Freiburg. Seidler was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Medical Education of the European Commission for ten years . From 1983 to 1990 Seidler was chairman of the ethics committee of the Baden-Württemberg medical association and from 1988 to 1992 president of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Seidler: The medicine of the late Middle Ages in Paris. Studies on the structure of late scholastic medicine. (Medical habilitation thesis Heidelberg 1965) (Stuttgart and) Wiesbaden 1967 (= Sudhoffs archive. Journal for the history of science. Supplement 8).
  2. ^ Eduard Seidler: Structural lines of Parisian medicine in the 14th century. In: Ruperto-Carola 39, 1966, pp. 217-223.
  3. ↑ Eduard Seidler: Parisian Medicine in the 15th Century. In: Gundolf Keil , Rainer Rudolf, Wolfram Schmitt, Hans Josef Vermeer (eds.): Specialist literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Gerhard Eis. Metzler, Stuttgart 1968, pp. 319-332.
  4. ↑ Eduard Seidler: History of the care of sick people. Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1966; 5th edition, ibid. 1980.
  5. ^ Eduard Seidler: Primary experience of need and help. In: Heinrich Schipperges , Eduard Seidler, Paul U. Unschuld (Ed.): Illness, healing art, healing. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 1978 (= publications of the "Institute for Historical Anthropology eV" Volume 1), ISBN 3-495-47388-2 , pp. 399-418.
  6. ^ Eduard Seidler: Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945: disenfranchised - fled - murdered. S. Karger Verlag, Freiburg / Basel 2007.
  7. ↑ Member entry of Eduard Seidler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Seidler, Eduard
SHORT DESCRIPTION German medical historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2020
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau