Jürgen Hammerstein

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Jürgen Hammerstein (born April 19, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German gynecologist , endocrinologist and university professor.

Life

Growing up in Berlin, Jürgen Hammerstein graduated from high school in Friedenau in 1943. After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war, he studied medicine from 1946 to 1951 in Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1952 he received the license and was at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. med. doctorate ( dissertation : "Investigations on the digestibility of different starch types in infants based on quantitative starch determinations in the faeces") From 1952 to 1953 Jürgen Hammerstein was a compulsory assistant at the Westend Hospital of the Free University of Berlin , until 1955 a scientific assistant at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the Free University Berlin and until 1969 at the University Women's Clinic in Charlottenburg in Berlin - among others with Felix von Mikulicz-Radecki . During this time he was entrusted with the management of the clinical laboratory and the construction of the hormone laboratory.

From this point on, Jürgen Hammerstein dealt scientifically with the causes of androgenization symptoms in women and intersexual intermediate stages as well as with menstrual disorders in women. In 1960 he was recognized as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology and completed his habilitation in the same subject in 1960 with the habilitation thesis: "New findings about the hormonal correlations in the menstrual cycle of women based on hormone analyzes in the urine." In 1963, Jürgen Hammerstein worked at the Endocrine Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry of the Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami / USA. In 1964 he became head of the department for gynecological endocrinology - from 1969 department for gynecological endocrinology, sterility and family planning - at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin. In 1966 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Free University of Berlin. In 1990 he retired.

From 1972 to 1979 Hammerstein was director of the World Health Organization's "Collaborating Center for Clinical Research in Human Reproduction" at the Steglitz Clinic in Berlin, and from 1976 to 1979 chairman of the permanent commission for steroid toxicology of the German Society for Endocrinology.

From 1988 to 2009, Hammerstein was the managing director of the Kaiserin Friedrich Foundation for Medical Training, Berlin.

Awards and honors

  • Laqueur Medal (1975)
  • Elected President of the German Society for Endocrinology (1979)
  • Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association (1993)
  • Honorary Professorships at Jinan University in Guangzhou and Tongji University in Wuhan (1998)
  • Federal Cross of Merit, First Class (1998)
  • Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association (2005)

Publications (selection)

  • 25 years of hormonal contraceptives from Berlin. Amsterdam 1986

literature

  • Jürgen Hammerstein: Autobiography. (1993), In: Gerhard Bettendorf (Ed.): On the history of endocrinology and reproductive medicine. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1995 (ISBN = 978-3-642-79153-6), pp. 214-217

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personal data
SURNAME Hammerstein, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist, endocrinologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin