Georg Harig

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Georg Harig (born February 5, 1935 in Leningrad , † August 6, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German medical historian .

Georg Harig was born as the son of the German physicist and communist Gerhard Harig in his exile in Leningrad. In 1948 he returned to Germany with his mother in the Soviet occupation zone. He studied at the Thomas School in Leipzig and graduated from high school in 1953. He then began studying medicine at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1955 he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB), where he finished his studies in 1958 with the state examination. In May of the following year, Harig's doctorate took place under Theodor Brugsch and Louis-Heinz Kettler on the topic of medical analysis of the Hippocratic writing De aere locis . Between 1960 and 1964, Harig was mainly clinical, mainly internist, although his affinity for the history of medicine was clear even then. In 1965, Harig also became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the HUB. In November 1970 he received the Facultas Docendi for the history of medicine, in June of the following year he completed his habilitation ( doctorate B ) with Dietrich Tutzke , Kettler and Johannes Irmscher on the subject of determining the intensity in Galen's medical system. A contribution to theoretical pharmacology, nosology and therapy in galenic medicine. In the same year he became senior physician, in 1978 university lecturer and 1985 full professor for the history of medicine and initially acting and later full director of the institute at the HUB. His main scientific interest continued to be in the work of the ancient medic Galen. In 1989 he succumbed to cancer.

His wife was the classical philologist and medical historian Jutta Kollesch .

Fonts (selection)

  • From the Arabic sources of Simeon Seth. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal , Volume 2, 1967, pp. 248-268.
  • Relationship between primary and secondary qualities in Galen's theoretical pharmacology. In: NTM , Volume 10, 1973, No. 1, pp. 64-81.
  • Determining the intensity in Galen's medical system. A contribution to theoretical pharmacology, nosology and therapy in galenic medicine. (Medical habilitation thesis Berlin 1971) Academy, Berlin 1974 (= DAWB, Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology: Writings on the history and culture of antiquity. Volume 11).
  • The concept of tepid warmth in Galen's theoretical pharmacology. Relations between medicine and mathematics in ancient times. In: NTM. Volume 13, 1976, No. 2, pp. 70-76.
  • The ancient conception of poison and the death of Mithridates. In: NTM. Volume 14, 1977, pp. 104-112-
  • History of Medicine (co-author; Ed .: Dietrich Tutzke). Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1980 [2. Edition 1983].
  • As editor: Surgical training in the 18th century . Matthiesen, Husum 1990 ( Treatises on the history of medicine and the natural sciences. Volume 57), ISBN 3-7868-4057-1 .
  • History of Medicine (with Peter Schneck). Verlag Gesundheit, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-333-00465-8 .
  • Essays on the history of medicine and science . Basiliken-Presse, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-925347-86-3 .

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 316.
  • Peter Schneck (Ed.): 70 years of the Berlin Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences (1930–2000). Shaker, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-9345-6 , pp. 83-84.

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personal data
SURNAME Harig, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1989
Place of death Berlin