Gert-Horst Schumacher

Gert-Horst Schumacher (born May 21, 1925 in Berlin ; † January 13, 2017 ) was a specialist in anatomy at the University of Rostock and long-time director of the anatomical institute there. He was the author of numerous human and dental publications, including the topographical anatomy of man .

Life

Schumacher, son of a butcher, was born in Berlin and spent the first years of his life in Pian , where his parents ran a farm. From 1929 he grew up in Lychen, Brandenburg . From 1931 to 1935 he attended elementary school in Lychen and from 1935 to 1943 the high school for boys in the Hohenlychen country school home, where he graduated from high school. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reserve officer candidate. His military service ended in 1944 with a serious war injury in East Prussia. After a stay in Wernigerode, he saw the end of the war in Lychen in 1945. His severe walking disability saved him from imprisonment.

After the Second World War he wanted to study law in Berlin. Since the Kaiser Wilhelm University, for which he was enrolled remotely in 1943, no longer existed, he first attended an interpreting school on Kurfürstendamm, where he was able to expand his school English and acquire a diploma. In October 1946 he began studying agriculture at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, but at the same time he attended anatomy lectures at the medical faculty. After two semesters, he went from agriculture to medicine and added dentistry as a second degree. In 1951 and 1952 he passed the state examination in dentistry and medicine and became a compulsory assistant in pathology and anatomy. In May 1953 he was promoted to Dr. med. and in April 1954 Dr. med. dent. PhD. From 1956 he worked as a specialist in anatomy and from 1959 as a professor with a teaching position and director of the Institute for Anatomy at the University of Rostock (until August 31, 1990). In 1970 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1990 Schumacher retired . He died at the age of 91.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• Anatomy. Textbook and atlas. JA Barth, Leipzig / Heidelberg 1991.
• Topographic human anatomy . 7th edition Elsevier, Urban and Fischer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-437-41367-8 .
• Monsters and demons. Accidents of nature; a cultural story . Edition q, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86124-165-X .
• Out of time in times: autobiography of a Rostock anatomist. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2013, ISBN 978-3-942673-40-2 .

as editor

• 550 years University of Rostock; 1919-1969; Anatomy through the centuries at the University of Rostock . University Press, Rostock 1968.
• Teratology . Urban & Fischer, Jena 1992, ISBN 3-334-60381-4 (together with Jochen Fanghänel and Trivedi V. Persaud).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert-Horst Schumacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Gert-Horst Schumacher in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book presentation in the Ärzteblatt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5/2014 ( memento from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Member entry of Gert-Horst Schumacher at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2016.
3. ^ Obituary notice in the Ostsee-Zeitung from January 18, 2017.