Helmut Siefert

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Helmut Siefert (born January 26, 1939 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2012 in Bad Salzhausen ) was a German medical historian .

Life

Siefert studied medicine in Berlin and Marburg . In 1967 he did his doctorate with Gunter Mann and Fritz Hartmann in Marburg with the dissertation The scientific and medical associations in the German-speaking area (1750-1850) to become Dr. med.

From 1967 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1972 he received an H2 professorship for the history of medicine in Frankfurt, which was converted into a C2 professorship in 1978. At the same time, from 1995 until his retirement in 2004, he was Managing Director of the Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine. In 1982, he completed additional training in deep psychology-based psychotherapy from.

Siefert was responsible for an edition of Georg Groddeck's writings from 1978–1984 . He also worked for the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann , the creator of Struwwelpeter .

Helmut Siefert was co-author of the medical dictionary edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann , the third edition of which appeared in 2006. Among other things, he wrote the biography of Alexander Mitscherlich .

Siefert was a predicant of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and a meditation and contemplation teacher at the Via Cordis community in Flüeli-Ranft . He lived in Bad Salzhausen , was married and has a son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Helmut Siefert, Werner Friedrich Kümmel : Course in medical terminology . Stuttgart: Schattauer 1974.
  • The forced chair. An example of how the mentally ill were dealt with in Haina in the 19th century. In: Walter Heinemeyer , Tilman Pünder (ed.): 450 years of psychiatry in Hessen. Marburg an der Lahn 1983 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Volume 47), pp. 309-320.
  • Co-editor of an edition of Heinrich Hoffmann's works in 4 volumes at Insel-Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1985–1990
  • Co-editor: Heinrich Hoffmann: All kinds of wisdom and folly. A reading book for the 200th birthday . Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • Sigmund Freud, Georg Groddeck and psychosomatic medicine. In: Practice of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 24, 1979, ISSN  0171-791X , pp. 63-78.
  • Georg Groddeck: Psychoanalytic writings on literature and art . Newly selected and ed. by Helmut Siefert, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., 1978 ISBN 3-596-26362-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Udo Benzenhöfer : Obituary: Helmut Siefert. In: UniReport. 2012, No. 6 (December 7, 2012), p. 22.
  2. ↑ Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., Department of Medicine: Death Notice Prof. Dr. med. Helmut Siefert , accessed on March 11, 2017
  3. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann : Doctors Lexicon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition CH Beck Munich 1995, 2nd edition Springer Berlin, Heidelberg et.al. 2001, 3rd edition Springer Berlin Heidelberg et.al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-29584-6 (print), ISBN 978-3-540-29585-3 (online).
personal data
SURNAME Siefert, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2012
Place of death Bad Salzhausen