Gottfried Roth

Gottfried Roth (born January 7, 1923 in Retz , Austria ; † January 1, 2006 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician, specialist in neurology and psychiatry and professor of pastoral medicine .

Life

Roth was born in 1923 in Retz, Lower Austria. After the end of the Second World War he studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck, now the Medical University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna . In 1952 Roth received his doctorate . He completed his specialist training in neurology and psychiatry at the universities of Bern, Innsbruck and Vienna.

From 1971 he was university lecturer for pastoral medicine at the University of Vienna, from 1977 also lecturer for pastoral medicine at the Philosophical-Theological University of Heiligenkreuz . Since 1979 Prof. Dr. Roth works at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Pölten .

In addition, Gottfried Roth was from 1990 to 1996 professor for pastoral medicine at the international ecclesiastical academic institute Rolduc in the Netherlands .

From 1985 to 1996 Roth was involved in the pastoral care of the sick as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care in Health Care . With the establishment of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pontificia Academia Pro Vita) in 1994, Roth was an academician. Roth was also involved in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem ; he was a Grand Officer and Secular Ceremonial from 1985 to 1990 in the Commandery of Vienna.

Since the 1970s, Gottfried Roth was editor-in-chief of the magazine “Arzt und Christ”, the official bulletin of the Catholic Medical Guild of Austria , of which he was a co-founder and long-time president. Gottfried Roth was also a member of the board of directors of the international association for the psychology of religion and religious studies .

He was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof in Vienna.

literature

• Gottfried Roth, Wolfgang Müller-Hartburg: The doctor in the technical world , Salzburg 1961
• Gottfried Roth: From apprentice bathers to surgeons: Carl Rabl, a physician in the Biedermeier , Upper Austrian state publisher 1971
• Gottfried Roth: Iuramentum doctorandorum in medicina: the medical oaths and pledges in the area of ​​the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy today (= Archigymnasium 4), Holzwarth & Berger Vienna 1971
• Elisabeth Kovács, Gottfried Roth: Anselm Ricker and his pastoral psychiatry 1824-1902 / 03; from the beginnings pastoral medicine. Teaching at the Catholic theol. Faculty of the University of Vienna , Wiener Dom-Verlag 1973, ISBN 3853510604
• Gottfried Roth: The protection of human life in the mirror of medical vows , in: Johannes Bökmann (ed.), Liberation from the objective good? Vallendar-Schoenstatt 1982, 221-233
• Kurt Krenn, Heinrich Petri, Gottfried Roth: Archive for Religious Psychology XXI. , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3525623364
• Gottfried Roth: Image of God and Psychotherapy (Festschrift for Auxiliary Bishop DDr. Heinrich Fasching), St. Pölten 2004, pp. 55–63
• Gottfried Roth: Discretio spirituum. Religious psychopathological problem areas in the context of therapeutic pastoral care , Festschrift for Provost Maximilian Fürnsinn, Herzogenburg 2004, pp. 266–279
• Gottfried Roth: Psychotherapeutic concepts with Thomas von Aquin , Auditorium spiritus Sancti / Festschrift of the Phil. - Theolog. Hochschule Heiligenkreuz. Heiligenkreuz 2004, pp. 429–444
• Gottfried Roth: The prohibition of euthanasia in the Hippocratic tradition , in: Euthanasia. Heiligenkreuzer Schriftenreihe Volume II (n.d. 2004), pp. 53–57.

Web links

• Biography by Gottfried Roth
• "Hippocrates in the Documents of the Church and in Works of Theology" (article by Gottfried Roth)
• "Normative weight" (article 2001)
• "Christ Medicus: Sovereign and Model of Medical Action" (article 2001)