Fritz Hartmann (physician, 1920)

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Fritz Hartmann (born November 17, 1920 in Osterfeld (Oberhausen) ; † February 10, 2007 in Hanover ) was a German doctor, medical historian and founder of scientific rheumatology as an independent medical discipline in Germany.

Life

Fritz Hartmann studied psychology, philosophy and medicine. In 1945 he received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen ; In 1950 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Liver Function Disorders".

In 1956 he received a reputation as a professor at the University of Marburg . There he was director of the medical polyclinic and from 1957 as an associate professor, from 1958 as a full professor.

In 1961, when the founding committee for the Hanover Medical School (MHH), which was to be founded, met for the first time , he assumed an advisory role there. After the founding rector Rudolf Schoen , he accepted the call to the MHH in 1965 as the first elected rector (1967 to 1969) and head of the internal medicine clinic, which was housed in the Oststadt hospital for many years . Hartmann later headed the department for diseases of the locomotor organs and metabolism at the Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology , as well as the seminar for the history, theory and value theory of medicine until his retirement in 1988.

His special fields of work were rheumatology , questions of internal medicine and hepatology . Within the framework of the German Research Foundation (DGF), he performed duties as a senator and member of the main committee, where he was a reporter for 15 special research areas in medicine.

Act

He was the first to devote himself to the development of rheumatology as an independent medical discipline, whereby he succeeded in setting up a special research area in the DFG that concentrated on rheumatology. On his initiative, regional rheumatism centers were also set up in Germany from Hanover. At the MHH he achieved the establishment of an institute for medical history. As a result of his efforts, Leibniz's destroyed house was also rebuilt in Hanover , which serves as a meeting center for scientists.

Awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • The medical mission: The development of the idea of ​​the occidental medical profession from its ideological and anthropological requirements up to the beginning of the modern age , Göttingen - Berlin - Frankfurt 1956.
  • Medicine. The Fischer Lexicon. 3 volumes with Johannes Linzbach and Rudolf Nissen, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Clinical and social science curriculum at the Hannover Medical School , University Didactic Materials No. 31, with Manfred Pflanz, 1971.
  • Biopolymers and biomechanics of connective tissue systems , with Christoph Hartung and Henning Zeidler , Berlin - Heidelberg - New York 1974.
  • Connective Tissues: Biochemistry and Pathophysiology with Reinhard Fricke, New York 1974.
  • Introduction to the study of medicine , Hannover MHH 1975.
  • 150 years of the Hannover Medical Association. City and doctor pictures from this time. A commemorative publication from the Hanoverian district office of the Lower Saxony Medical Association with Walther Ruge and Hans Kaspar Büscher, Hanover 1979.
  • Patient, doctor and medicine. Contributions to medical anthropology , Göttingen 1984.
  • The part and the whole in the doctor's field of vision , Stuttgart 1988.
  • Practical rheumatology: Basics, general diagnostics, therapy with Alfred Wittenborg and Hennig Zeidler, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-541-12391-5 .
  • Clinic of the present. Handbook of practical medicine , 12 volumes + register volume with Hans Erhard Bock and Wolfgang Gerock as editors, Munich, Vienna, Baltimore 1985–1990.
  • Classics of Medicine II. From Philippe Pinel to Viktor von Weizsäcker , 2 volumes with Dietrich von Engelhardt, Munich 1991.
  • Living with the disease. On the value and dignity of chronically ill people , Passau 1996, ISBN 3-927575-52-6 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Hartmann: In memory and thanks to Heinrich Schipperges: Prof. emer. med., Dr. phil., Dr. h .c. 1918-2003. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 24, 2005, pp. 554–569
  2. ↑ Communications from the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society : Fritz Hartmann (1920–2007). Fortschr Neurol Psychiat 2008; 76: 747-753
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rheumatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterfeld (Oberhausen)
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2007
Place of death Hanover