Jörg Vögele

Jörg Vögele (born December 2, 1956 ) is a German professor of modern and contemporary history and managing director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Career

Vögele studied at the Universities of Konstanz and Bristol and - after having passed the state examination and MA - obtained the title of Dr. phil. The habilitation took place in 1999 in Düsseldorf. In 1987 he took up academic activities at the Universities of Konstanz, where he stayed until 1989, and at Liverpool in the field of economic history. In 1991 he moved to Liverpool as Deputy Director at the Institute for European Population Studies. At the same time, he became a research assistant and deputy director at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. He resigned the former activity in 2000, while the latter is still ongoing. During his time in Liverpool he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1993 to 1994 and a Fellow of the University of Liverpool (School of History) from 1994 until he left. From 1998 to 2006 he was head of the historical demography working group of the German Society for Demography. In the summer semester of 2001, he accepted a visiting professorship at Charles University in Prague . From 2003 to 2009 he was a substitute professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In addition, he was managing director and research assistant at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine in Düsseldorf from 2003 to 2015. Since 2016 he has been a research assistant and curator of the graphic collection Mensch und Tod at the same institute at the University of Düsseldorf.

In addition to the social history of medicine , his main areas of work are the historical demography and epidemiology, the history of the public health system in Germany and England, the history of infant care and infant nutrition, the reference field migration / health, the social, economic and cultural history of urbanization and globalization using the example of European port cities and quantifying methods. He occasionally gives lectures on these special topics.

Publications

Monographs

• Social history of urban health conditions during urbanization (Writings on economic and social history, vol. 69), Berlin 2001.
• Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany, 1870–1910 (Liverpool Studies in European Population, Vol. 5), Liverpool 1998.
• Grain markets on Lake Constance in the 19th century. Structures and developments (contributions to economic and social history in the south-west of Germany, vol. 10), St. Katharinen 1989.

Editorships

• Gateways of Disease. Public Health in European and Asian Port Cities at the Birth of the Modern World in the late 19th and early 20th Century , Göttingen 2015 (with Hideharu Umehara)
• Does a Long Life Make Sense? Premature death as a pattern of identity and meaning in a historical perspective , Historical Social Research, Special Issue 34 (2009) (with Thorsten Halling and Silke Fehlemann).
• Spinning the Commercial Web: International Trade, Merchants and Commercial Cities, c. 1640-1939 , Frankfurt a. M. 2004 (with Margit Schulte Beerbühl).
• Sickness and death. History of urban health conditions during the epidemiological transition (from the 18th to the early 20th century) (Writings on Economic and Social History, Vol. 62), Berlin (with Wolfgang Woelk)
• Dancing with Mr. D. Tod in pop music and art , Cologne 2019 (with Anna Schiller and Luisa Rittershaus)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical sketch. In: uniklinik-duesseldorf.de. August 16, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Jörg Vögele. In: cuvillier.de. April 9, 2015, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
3. ↑ In the fight against infant mortality. Infant feeding and breastfeeding propaganda. A Contribution to the History of Public Health Care. In: buergerimstaat.de. 2002, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Scare tactics or a real threat? Conference thematized infectious diseases as a challenge for modern medicine. (No longer available online.) In: ekd.de. Evangelical Academy in Berlin, archived from the original on August 28, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Vögele in the catalog of the German National Library