Florian G. Mildenberger

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Florian Georg Mildenberger (born October 3, 1973 in Munich ) is a German medical historian .

Life

Florian Mildenberger grew up in Schondorf am Ammersee and in Munich. He graduated from high school in 1993 , completed his military service with the army command troops in Donauwörth and Pöcking and studied modern history, the history of Eastern Europe and political science in Munich , London and Berlin from 1994 to 1998 . At the same time, he sat in at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in order to acquire medical knowledge. In the course of this activity, Mildenberger made the decision to concentrate on the history and theory of medicine in the future. In his free time he was involved in the techno subculture in Upper Bavaria and worked in the art treatment gallery. After completing his Magister Artium in 1998, Mildenberger went on a study trip to Russia, which took him to Labytnangi , Salekhard and Nadym . Building on the research he had obtained in local archives, Mildenberger wrote his dissertation on the polar railway . In 2000 he was awarded the magna cum laude Dr. phil. PhD.

He then taught as a lecturer for modern history and the history of science at the University of Vienna until 2002 , before becoming a project member at the Institute for the History of Medicine in Munich under Paul Ulrich Unschuld . In 2006 he completed his habilitation in Munich with a study of the life and work of Jakob von Uexküll . In his spare time he was involved in the Berlin project Gigi - magazine for sexual emancipation .

Mildenberger left Munich in 2007 and moved to Berlin. He is a graduate of the American Board of Sexology . From 2008 to 2009 he worked as a specialist in the history of medicine at the Berlin State Library . Since 2009 he has been teaching at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) , where he received a professorship in the social sciences, as a lecturer in the history of medicine. In 2011 Mildenberger was appointed adjunct professor .

activity

Mildenberger's research includes the fields of medical history, sexology, Eastern European history, gender studies , the coming to terms with the German pedophile movement , as well as the controversial conversion therapy propagated by the ex-gay movement , which regards homosexuality as a treatable disease.

Mildenberger deals with numerous scientific and medical history topics. He wrote a book on the historical understanding of homosexuality by German psychiatrists, biographies of the Austrian gynecologist Helene Stourzh-Anderle (1890–1966) and the medical historian and Indologist Reinhold FG Müller (1882–1966) and a study on the life of the pedosexual activist Peter Schult . There are also essays on biology-historical and science-historical topics.

Since 2007 Mildenberger has increasingly turned to the history of complementary medicine . His publications include a consideration of the sexual understanding of homeopaths and natural healers in the 19th century, a monograph on the medical subcultures in the Federal Republic of Germany and the historical consideration of miracle healers in German history (e.g. Bruno Gröning ). In 2011, Mildenberger also criticized the perceived exaggeration of the life and work of the bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich (whose invention Salvarsan, as one of the first antimicrobial drugs , is said to have been of great service in combating syphilis ).

In his lectures and seminars at the European University Viadrina, Mildenberger u. a. with the history of cosmetic surgery, the German gynecologists' image of women or the linguistic aspects of discourses about "sex".

Fonts (selection)

  • The polar artery. A contribution to research into unknown railway projects in the north of Russia and Siberia , Munich: Johannes Press 2000
  • ... corrupted in the direction of homosexuality. Psychiatrists, criminal psychologists and coroners on male homosexuality 1850–1970 , Hamburg: Männerschwarm-Verlag 2002
  • Alone among men. Life and work of Helene Stourzh-Anderle , Herbolzheim: Centaurus 2004
  • Example Peter Schult. Pedophilia in public discourse , Hamburg: Männerschwarm-Verlag 2006
  • Environment as a vision. Life and work of Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944). Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag 2007 (= Sudhoffs archive. Supplement 56).
  • Healing hands - abortion fingers? The debate about the Thure-Brandt massage in German-speaking medicine (approx. 1870 to approx. 1970) . In: Medicine, Society and History 26 (2007), pp. 75–130
  • Heilstrom through the goiter. Life, work and aftermath of the miracle healer Bruno Gröning (1906-1959) . In: Sudhoff's archive. Journal for the History of Science 92 (2008), pp. 35–64
  • Sexuality and naturopathy 1850 to 1914. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung. Volume 22, 2009, pp. 24-48
  • At a losing point. Heinrich Dreuw's lonely fight against syphilis and Salvarsan. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 30, 2011, pp. 218-258.
  • Medicinal subcultures in the Federal Republic of Germany and their opponents 1950–1990. Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011 (= supplements on medicine, society and history. Volume 41).
  • Medical instruction for the bourgeoisie. Medicinal cultures in the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1853–1944). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012 (= medicine, society and history. Supplement 45), ISBN 978-3-515-10232-2 . See: Gundolf Keil: Review. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 306-313.
  • No salvation through arsenic? The salvarsand debate and its consequences. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013 (2014), pp. 327-390.
  • The establishment of a "hygienic state". The modernization of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen by Georg II. (1826–1914) and Georg Leubuscher (1858–1916). In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 111-144.
  • What is homosexuality? Research history, social developments and perspectives. Männerschwarm-Verlag, Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-86300-163-6 .
  • Life reform and medicine around 1900. The natural healing movement in Brandenburg. In: Christiane Batz (Ed.): Simply. Naturally. Life: Life Reform in Brandenburg 1890–1933. Berlin 2015, pp. 105–114.
  • The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors in National Socialism. Assessment, criticism, interpretation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-8353-1879-3 .
  • On the sociology of homosexuality in the Federal Republic of Germany: Origin and impact of the study 'Der Ordinary Homosexual' by Martin Dannecker and Reimut Reiche (1974). In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 209–222.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ann-Christin Korsing: Nobody who hides. In: Märkische Online-Zeitung , April 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Gundolf Keil: Review of: Florian Mildenberger: Medical instruction for the bourgeoisie. Medicinal cultures in the magazine "Die Gartenlaube" (1853–1944). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012 (= medicine, society and history. Supplement 45), ISBN 978-3-515-10232-2 . In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 306–313, here: p. 306.
  3. ^ Staff ( memento from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the European University Viadrina.
personal data
SURNAME Mildenberger, Florian G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mildenberger, Florian; Mildenberger, Florian Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar on the history of medicine, sexology, Eastern European studies
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich