Franz Huebotter

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Franz Hübotter (born December 5, 1881 in Weimar , † March 23, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , sinologist and medical historian . After the First World War he lived as a doctor in Kumamoto / Japan for 4 years . From 1925 onwards, Hübotter worked as a doctor with interruptions in Tsingtau / China, initially in a Protestant mission hospital and later in his own hospital. As a member of a Buddhist community, he was arrested by the Chinese communists in 1951, sentenced to death, but later pardoned, and returned to Germany in 1953, where, aged over 70 until his death, he used the ancient Chinese healing methods acupuncture and moxibustion in his own practice.

In addition to his medical practice, he was an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin and taught a small group of students in traditional Chinese medicine and its history. He left behind a considerable number of papers in his specialty, the study of Chinese medical history. His most famous work is The Chinese Medicine at the beginning of the XX. Century and its historical development (1929). He also achieved great merits - together with Haberling and Vierordt - in the publication of the five-volume 2nd edition of the Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations, founded by August Hirsch .

Works (selection)

  • From the plans of the warring states together with the corresponding biographies of Si ma quian 司 馬 迁. Diss. Phil. Berlin 1912.
  • Shou shi bian 寿 世 编. A Chinese obstetrics textbook. Berlin / Vienna 1913.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan-Mongolian pharmacology. Berlin / Vienna 1913 (digitized version)
  • Famous Chinese Doctors. In: Archives for the History of Medicine. Vol. 7 (1913/14), pp. 113-128.
  • 3,000 years of medicine. A historical plan, encompassing the time between Homer and the present, with special consideration of the connections between medicine and philosophy . Berlin 1920.
  • Two famous ancient Chinese doctors Chun yu yi 渟 于 意 and Hua tuo 华 佗 . In: Messages of the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia. Vol. 21 (1926), pp. 1-48 (digitized version )
  • Two Tibetan text fragments from Turfan. In: Festschrift Max Neuburger. International contributions to the history of medicine. Vienna 1928, pp. 188–191.
  • Chinese medicine at the beginning of the XX. Century and its historical development. Asia major, Leipzig 1929.
  • With Wilhelm Haberling and Hermann Vierordt (eds.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . 2nd edition, 5 vol., Urban & Schwarzenberg: Berlin & Wien 1929–1935; 3rd (unchanged) edition, Urban & Schwarzenberg: München & Berlin 1962
  • Chinese medicine. In: Ciba magazine. 8: 3109-3137 (1959).
  • 50 years of practical medical experience as a supplement to medical textbooks . Self-published, Berlin 1960.
  • Jia yi jing 甲 乙 经. Berlin 1964.

literature

  • Martin Gimm : Franz Hübotter (1881–1967) in memoriam. In: News of the Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (NOAG). Vol. 102, 1967, pp. 5–10 (with portrait, list of publications).
  • Hanns-Robert Goldmann: Franz Hübotter (1881–1967). A Berlin doctor between East and West. Diss. Med. Berlin 1991, 156 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Repository of Kumamoto University, pp. 164f
  2. ^ Biography of Franz Huebotter on deutsche-biographie.de
  3. ^ Biography Franz Hübotter at www.tsingtau.org Contributions to the history of Tsingtau (Qingdao) - 1897 to 1953
personal data
SURNAME Huebotter, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, sinologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1967
Place of death Berlin