Günter Heidel

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Günter Heidel (born June 11, 1942 in Leisnig, Saxony ; † November 15, 2013 in Dresden ) was a German doctor and medical historian .

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Heidel graduated from the Workers' and Farmers Faculty in Halle (Saale) in 1960 and then studied medicine in Sofia and Dresden , where he received his doctorate in 1966 . He was an assistant doctor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine and at the Institute for Social Medicine of the Medical Academy Dresden as well as department head in the organization and computing center of this university. From 1975 to 1979 Heidel worked in the health policy department in the Central Committee of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) in Berlin. On September 1, 1979, senior physician Günter Heidel took over the management of the department for the history of medicine at the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" in Dresden. This academy became an independent department at the same time. Heidel completed his habilitation in 1980 with a thesis on the clinician Johann Ludwig Choulant . In 1981 Heidel was appointed as a university lecturer, then as associate professor and finally as full professor at the newly established chair for the history of medicine at the “Carl Gustav Carus” Medical Academy in Dresden. He held this chair until 1992. Heidel was instrumental in initiating the publication of the publications of the Medical Academy Dresden. From 1992 to 2004 Heidel worked as a general practitioner in Dresden-Schönfeld.

Work areas

  • Medical historiography
  • hygiene
  • Dentistry
  • Personnel history

Publications

  • Changes in the surface structure of streptomycin-resistant microorganisms and their genetic interpretation , Dresden 1966.
  • The clinician Johann Ludwig Choulant. A contribution to the problems of clinical medicine in the first half of the 19th century, Dresden habilitation thesis 1980.
  • The Dresden surgeon Johann August Wilhelm Hedenus (1760-1836). On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of death on December 19, 1986. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 111 (1986), pp. 1551–1558 (together with B. Wündrich and A. Dehne)
  • Dresden social hygiene efforts and their fate in the first half of the 20th century. Journal for the entire hygiene and their border areas 33 (1987), pp. 551-554
  • The I. International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden and the establishment of the German Hygiene Museum. Journal for the entire hygiene and its border areas 33 (1987), pp. 411-415
  • Carl Gustav Carus , Opera et Efficacitas. Scientific symposium on the work and legacy of Carl Gustav Carus on September 22, 1989 , Verlag Carus-Akademie Dresden 1990.
  • Johann Ludwig Choulant (1791-1861). For the 200th birthday of the founder of an important medical-historical tradition. Würzburg medical history reports 9 (1991), pp. 351-462
  • On the tradition of Dresden medical training centers and their cooperation with the predecessor institutions of the TU Dresden . In: History of the Technical University of Dresden in documents and pictures. Edited by Rector. Bad 1. Dresden 1992, pp. 99-100

literature

  • Caris-Petra Heidel and Marina Lienert (eds.): The professors of the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and its predecessor institutions 1814-2004 , Munich 2005.
  • Volker Klimpel : Dresden Doctors of the 20th Century. Historical-biographical lexicon (manuscript)

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personal data
SURNAME Heidel, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Quietly
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2013
Place of death Dresden