Erwin Kuntz

Erwin Kuntz (born October 21, 1922 in Kröffelbach ; † December 27, 2017 ) was a German internist .

Life

Erwin Kuntz was born as the son of the teacher Heinrich Kuntz and his wife Auguste, née Arabin. After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Wetzlar in 1940, he served in the war from 1940 to 1945. From 1945 to 1951 he studied human medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg (state examination 1951) and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Since 1949 he was a member of the Marburger Wingolf . Erwin Kuntz then began his training at the Medical University Clinic in Giessen in the field of pulmonary and bronchial medicine (specialist certification in 1958) and in the overall field of internal medicine (specialist certification in 1962). His clinical focus was on all biopsy and endoscopic techniques of these two disciplines available at the time; he built up the endoscopy department of the clinic. In the course of these activities, Erwin Kuntz changed to his later research and teaching area, gastroenterology and especially hepatology . He completed his habilitation in Gießen in 1964 with the subject "The clinical assessment of the activity of pulmonary tuberculosis". Erwin Kuntz was a senior physician at the Medical University Clinic until 1968, and in 1969 he was made an adjunct professor. From 1968 to 1974 he was chief physician at the Diakonie Hospital in Schwäbisch Hall , then until 1988 chief physician and medical director at the Wetzlar Clinic . Since 1954, Kuntz has been active as a congress leader and / or lecturer in advanced medical training for almost 50 years .

Kuntz was married to his wife Ursula from 1947 until her death in 2015. He lived in Wetzlar.

Awards

• Franz Redeker Prize (1962)
• Franz Redeker Prize (1964)
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Debrecen (1989)
• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1999)
• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI, Commendatore) (2004)
• Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (2006)
• Honorary Citizen of Waldsolms (2007)
• Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class of Austria (2009)
• Hessian Order of Merit (2015)

Works

• The clinical assessment of the activity of pulmonary tuberculosis (plus habilitation), Thieme Verlag , Stuttgart 1964.
• The pleural effusions. Differential diagnosis, clinic and therapy (clinical study), Urban u. Schwarzenberg Verlag, Munich 1968.
• Gallbladder and biliary tract diseases . JF Lehmanns Verlag , Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3-46900490-1 .
• Practical hepatology . Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag , Leipzig 1998, ISBN 978-3-335-00568-1 .
• Hepatology. Textbook and Atlas . Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 3rd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-76838-8 .
• Customs and songs of the Christmas season , 2nd edition 2015, 120 pp., 14th illustration, Wetzlar ISBN 978-3-00-051578-1
• Middle Hessian dictionary and customs in the course of the year, 2015, 2nd edition, 441 pages, 38 figs., W3-print Wetzlar, ISBN 978-3-9815596-2-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Kuntz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Erwin Kuntz  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Award-winning physician Prof. Erwin Kuntz died , accessed on January 5, 2018
2. ^ Wingolfsblätter 2015, 265
3. ↑ Portrait: The Doctor, His Wife and an Angel , Idea , article from April 13, 2016.
4. ↑ Laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Federal Medical Association 2006. 
5. ↑ Hessian Order of Merit for Erwin Kuntz