Gerhard Fichtner

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Gerhard Fichtner (born April 4, 1932 in Pößneck ; died January 4, 2012 in Tübingen ) was a German doctor and medical historian .

Life

Fichtner attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig until 1950 . He studied theology (state examination) in Leipzig and then medicine in Heidelberg , Freiburg , Zurich , Basel and Kiel . He was at Walter von Brunn (1876-1952) in Tübingen Dr. med. PhD.

Fichtner worked as a doctor at hospitals in Stuttgart and Vaihingen an der Enz and as an assistant at the medical history institutes in Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1970 to 1998 he was professor in Tübingen and director of the Institute for the History of Medicine (today - since 2001 - Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . The focus of his research and publications was the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis . Most recently he worked on the publication of the bridal letters from Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays , the first volume of which was published in 2011.

For his contributions to the history of psychoanalysis, he received honorary membership of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV). He was awarded the Sudhoff plaque from the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology.

Fichtner campaigned for the work of the Swabian graphic artist HAP Grieshaber and was a member of the council of the HAP Grieshaber Foundation, which determines the winner of the Jerg-Ratgeb-Preis , and of the HAP Grieshaber Circle of Friends. From 1998 to 2006 he was Vice President of the Hölderlin Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • The transplanted carrot leg. On the interpretation of the Kosmas and Damian legend. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 3, 1968, pp. 87-100.
  • Corpus Galenicum. Directory of galenic and pseudogalenic scripts. Tubingen 1985.
  • Corpus Hippocraticum. Directory of the Hippocratic and Pseudo-Hippocratic Scriptures. Tubingen 1985.
  • Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo, Gerhard Fichtner: Freud bibliography with concordance of works , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a / M 1989; 2nd, improved and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 978-3-10-022811-6 .
  • as editors: Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Binswanger. Correspondence 1908–1938. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-10-022809-X .
  • with Ilse Grubrich-Simitis and Albrecht Hirschmüller (eds.): The bride letters. Volume 1: Be mine as I think it will be. June 1882-July 1883. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-022807-9 ; Volume 2: Our novel in sequels. ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-022812-3 .
  • Gerd Brinkhus, Gerhard Fichtner: Grieshaber and the book: An exhibition of the university library for the 70th birthday of HAP Grieshaber, May 25th to July 14th 1979. University library , Tübingen 1979.

literature

  • Dietlinde Goltz, Albrecht Hirschmüller (eds.): Never idle: Symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Dr. Gerhard Fichtner on December 19, 1998 in Tübingen. Barbara Staudacher, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-928213-08-3 .
  • Ludger M. Hermanns (Ed.): From collecting, thinking and interpreting in history, art and psychoanalysis. In honor of Gerhard Fichtner . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2013 (Yearbook of Psychoanalysis. Supplement, Volume 25), ISBN 978-3-7728-2640-5 (with bibliography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Strute, Theodor Dölken (ed.): Who's who in medicine. Who's who, Woerthsee 1981, ISBN 3-921220-40-8 , Vol. 1, p. 215.
  2. ^ Obituary by Gerhard Fichtner , in: Südwest Presse, January 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Newsletter Uni Tübingen current No. 1/2012: People ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fichtner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Poessneck
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2012
Place of death Tübingen