Juerg Ulrich
Jürg Ulrich (born February 4, 1930 in Zurich ; † May 16, 2017 in Basel ) was a Swiss physician and historian.
Life
Jürg Ulrich was born in 1930 into a middle-class family, his father was a lawyer . In 1948 he began studying medicine in Geneva , where, after coming into contact with politically active fellow students, he joined a socialist student group. After a semester abroad in Paris , where he came into contact with Trotskyists , he completed his medical studies in Zurich in 1954. At times he was close to the Socialist Workers' Union and was friends with Oskar Hippe .
After training as a specialist in clinical neurology and additional training as a neuropathologist in Zurich and London , Ulrich was Professor of Neuropathology at the University Hospital Basel from 1972 to 1995 . Among other things, he specialized in research on multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's and published numerous papers on this.
After his retirement , Ulrich studied Eastern European History with Heiko Haumann at the University of Basel until 2005 and undertook several research trips to Russia to the archives there. As a result of this research, he published a biography of the Bolshevik and Soviet politician Lev Kamenev, as well as a book about the youth of Leon Trotsky . In addition, in 2005 he founded the Foundation for Social History of Eastern Europe to promote Eastern European-related historical research projects.
Autobiographical fragments of Jürg Ulrichs were published shortly after his death by VSA-Verlag under the title Trotsky on the Gold Coast . His estate is kept in the Swiss Social Archives.
Fonts (selection)
- Cerebral demyelinating diseases in childhood: Diffuse brain sclerosis , Springer, Berlin 1971.
- Outline of Neuropathology , Springer, Berlin 1975.
- (Ed.), Histology and Histopathology of the Aging Brain , Karger, Basel 1988.
- Histochemistry and Immunohistochemistry of Alzheimer's Disease , G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1993.
- Leon Trotsky as a young revolutionary , Decaton, Mainz 1995 (new edition: Hamburg 2010).
- Kamenev. The moderate Bolshevik. The collective thinking in the environment of Lenin , VSA, Hamburg 2006.
- Trotsky on the Gold Coast. A Swiss citizen with the revolutionary left , VSA, Hamburg 2018.
literature
- Jürg Ulrich: “Like strangers in your own country”: attempt by a Swiss intellectual to be a revolutionary socialist in the post-war period. A personal review . In: Peter Niederhäuser, Anita Ulrich (ed.): Foreign in Zurich - foreign Zurich? Migration, culture and identity in the 19th and 20th centuries , Zurich, Chronos, 2005, pp. 39–43.
- Jürg Ulrich: Trotsky on the Gold Coast. A Swiss citizen with the revolutionary left , Hamburg, VSA, 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürg Ulrich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Inventory of the estate of Jürg Ulrich in the Swiss Social Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://trauer.nzz.ch/trauerbeispiel/juerg-ulrich
- ↑ https://stiftungschweiz.ch/organisation/stiftung-fuer-sozialgeschichte-osteuropas/
- ↑ http://findmittel.ch/archive/archNeu/Ar1014.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ulrich, Juerg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss physician and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 2017 |
| Place of death | Basel |