Heinz David

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Heinz Werner David (born  December 5, 1931 in Tilsit ; † April 26, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , pathologist , medical historian and university writer . From 1971 to 1981 he headed the Institute for Scientific Information in Medicine, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Health of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and from 1987 to 1991 was director of the Institute for Pathology at the Charité . From 1980 to 1990 he was dean of the medical faculty at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Heinz David was born in Tilsit in 1931 as the son of an internist and a mathematician . At the end of the Second World War , the family came to Neuruppin as expellees , where his father worked in his own practice. Heinz David obtained the 1950 High School and then graduated from 1950 to 1955 to study medicine . For personal reasons, he decided to go to Berlin's Humboldt University , although he had also received admission to the Free University of Berlin .

He received his doctorate in 1955 and from 1956 he worked at the Institute for Pathology at the Charité . Here he completed his habilitation in 1960, a year later he became senior physician and in 1965 professor. He also took over the management of the department for electron microscopy at the Charité, which is affiliated to the institute , and from 1971 to 1981 was director of the institute for scientific information in medicine, which among other things published the journal DDR-Medizin-Report and was a central facility of the Ministry of Health of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1980 to 1990 he was dean of the medical faculty at Humboldt University. In 1987 he became a full professor and director of the Institute for Pathology at the Charité.

After his early retirement in 1991, he took over practice representation for established pathologists throughout Germany for a while. He also devoted himself to medical and university history studies and in 2004 published a two-volume work on the history of the Charité with over 1200 pages.

Act

The focus of research by Heinz David, who wrote more than 400 scientific publications and more than 30 monographs and book chapters, was electron microscopic examinations of cytopathology as well as the pathology of the liver and the digestive tract . From 1976 to 1984 he acted as chairman of the Society for Pathology of the GDR and also until 1989 as long-term vice-president of the Society for Experimental Medicine of the GDR.

Awards

In 1960 Heinz David received the Rudolf Virchow Prize (as a collective) . In 1971 he received the GDR National Prize . From 1973 he was a corresponding member and from 1975 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . After the academy was dissolved, he became a member of the Leibniz Society .

Works (selection)

  • Submicroscopic orthomorphology and pathomorphology of the liver. Text volume and atlas. Berlin 1964 (further editions in English and Russian)
  • Electron microscopic organ pathology. Berlin 1967
  • Quantitative Ultrastructural Data of Animal and Human Cells. Leipzig 1977
  • The Hepatocyte: Development, Differentiation and Aging. Jena 1985
  • General Pathology: An Introduction for Students. Fourth edition. Berlin 1986 (as co-author)
  • Dictionary of Medicine. 15th edition. Berlin 1992
  • Rudolf Virchow and the Medicine of the 20th Century. Series: Hamburg contributions to the history of medicine. Munich 1993
  • "... it should be called the Charité house ...": Continuities, breaks and breaks as well as new beginnings in the 300-year history of the Medical Faculty (Charité) of the Berlin University. Two volumes. Hamburg 2004
  • Life routes. Series: Doctors Biographies. Volume 7. Lage 2006 (autobiography)

literature

  • Horst Nizze: Pathology on the Wall. The autobiography of the Charité chronicler Heinz David. In: The Pathologist. 27 (6) / 2006. Springer-Verlag, pp. 481-485, ISSN  0172-8113
  • David, Heinz . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 70.
  • Heinz David. In: Isabel Atzl: Zeitzeugen Charité: Working Worlds of the Institute for Pathology 1952-2005. Series: The medical Berlin. Volume 2. LIT Verlag, Berlin, Hamburg and Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9522-X , pp. 48-59

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in: Berliner Zeitung , 11./12. May 2019, p. 14.
  2. ^ Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité: Working Worlds of the Institute for Pathology 1952–2005. Lit, 2006, p. 50, ISBN 978-3-8258-9522-8 . ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME David, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES David, Heinz Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2019
Place of death Berlin