Hans Hugo Lauer

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Hans Hugo Lauer (born April 18, 1934 in Wetzlar ; † September 12, 2012 ) was a German medical historian.

Origin and life

Lauer was the son of a pastor and since 1954 studied medicine , philosophy and history at the universities of Bonn , Freiburg im Breisgau and Vienna . In 1961 he graduated from the medical state examination at Bonn University and received his doctorate in 1962 for Dr. med. He then worked as a medical assistant at various university clinics in Bonn and Heidelberg. In 1964 he received his license to practice medicine. From 1964 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heidelberg University . Among other things, he studied Arabic and completed his habilitation in 1969. From 1967 to 1969 he was Honorary Research Assistant at the Wellcome Foundation in London and at University College London . In 1971 he became head of the branch office of the Institute for the History of Medicine in Mannheim. In Heidelberg he was from 1972 scientific advisor, private lecturer (1972) and adjunct professor (1973). In 1973 he became a full professor at the University of Marburg and head of the Institute for the History of Medicine there. In 1999 he retired.

Lauer dealt with Arab influences on medieval European medicine, folk medicine and health behavior, the tradition of materia medica up to the beginning of modern times and regional history of medicine in Marburg and Hesse.

He made medical historical contributions to the Lexicon of the Middle Ages and the New German Biography .

Fonts

  • History of coronary sclerosis, Konstanz: Byk Gulden 1971
  • Life and health with Hildegard von Bingen, Federal Association for Health Education, Bonn 1986
  • The medical polyclinic in Marburg and the beginnings of its independence, Marburg: Elwert 1994
  • with Gerhard Aumüller a. a .: The Marburg Medical Faculty in the "Third Reich", Academia Marburgensis 8, 2001
  • Editor with G. Aumüller: Continuity and a new beginning in German university medicine after 1945, Marburg: Schüren Verlag 1997
  • On the history of the tradition of the Salep root, in: G. Keil, R. Rudolf, W. Schmitt, HJ Vermeer (eds.), Fachliteratur des Mittelaltes, Festschrift for Gerhard Eis, JB Metzler 1968
  • From materia medica to experimental pharmacology, in: Festschrift 125 Years of the Pharmacological Institute Marburg, Marburg: Elwert 1992
  • Science in transition. Marburg physiologists on the way to the 19th century, in: Medicine and Culture, Festschrift Dietrich von Engelhardt, Stuttgart: Schattauer 2001
  • Sickness and morality. For the prevention of venereal diseases, in: Ensemble from culture and medical history, Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Aumüller, Writings of the University Library Marburg 113, 2008.
  • Ethics and medical thinking in the Arab Middle Ages, Sudhoff`s archive, supplement 28, 1984
  • Number and Medicine, Janus, Volume 53, 1966

literature

  • Heidelberger Jahrbücher, Volume 11, Springer, 1967, p. 128
  • Entry in Dagmar Drüll (ed.), Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986, Springer 2009, p. 380

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
  2. ↑ Hans Hugo Lauer in Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933-1986, by Dagmar Drüll in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Lauer, Hans Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian and physician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2012