Joachim-Hermann Scharf

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Joachim-Hermann Scharf (born November 7, 1921 in Nebra (Unstrut) ; † June 22, 2014 there ) was a German anatomist and biologist.

Life

As the son of a bookseller and art dealer, Joachim-Hermann Scharf passed his Abitur in 1940 at the humanistic monastery school in Roßleben . In 1939 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . After military service and being wounded, he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna . He moved to the re-founded Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , which made him Dr. med. PhD. He received an assistant position to Max Watzka in the Mainz anatomy department. On February 21, 1953 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He then studied physical chemistry , mathematics and oriental studies . On February 3, 1956 , he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty in Mainz.

In 1956 he was offered chairs in Canada, Venezuela and Jena. He decided on the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the German Democratic Republic . In 1959 he moved to the local Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . It was the last appointment of a “West German” to a university in the GDR. Scharf turned down several offers and was director of Halle's anatomy for 28 years. 1987 emeritus , he continued to work at the Institute. Formed immensely versatile, he wrote 270 mostly very extensive publications , which also medical history include aspects and are characterized by precision, spirit and language discipline.

Honors

Fonts

  • Sensitive ganglia. (= Handbook of Human Microscopic Anatomy . Volume IV). founded by Wilhelm von Möllendorff ) Berlin 1958.
  • Experimental prerequisites and theoretical foundations for antithyroid therapy while avoiding additional strumigenic effects . Leipzig 1963.
  • with Johannes Adam and Helmut Enke: Methods of statistical analysis in medicine and biology . Berlin 1977.
  • Beginnings of systematic anatomy and teratology in ancient Babylon . Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-05-500481-7 .
  • Beginnings of systematic anatomy and teratology in ancient Babylon. Berlin 1988 (= meeting reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, mathematical and natural science class. Volume 120, Issue 3).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
  2. ^ Harry Waibel : Servants of many gentlemen: Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 283.
  3. ↑ Medical dissertation: The medullary ganglion cells and their relationship to the myelogenetic theories: At the same time a contribution to the morphology of the opposito-bipolar-dineuritic ganglion cell .
  4. ↑ Scientific dissertation: The relationship of lipoids to the pericellular structures of ganglion cells in some invertebrates compared to vertebrates . Journal for Cell Research and Microscopic Anatomy 6 (1953), pp. 526-570. doi: 10.1007 / BF00344329
  5. ↑ Habilitation thesis, Part 1: Fluorescence and fluorescence polarization of the nerve fiber after staining with phenyloxyfluorones: attempt at an interpretation . Mikoskopie 9/10 (1956), pp. 261-319. ISSN  0026-3702
  6. ↑ Habilitation thesis, Part 2: Fluorescence and fluorescence polarization of the nerve fiber after staining with phenyloxyfluorones: attempt at an interpretation . Mikoskopie 11/12 (1956), pp. 349-397. ISSN  0026-3702
  7. ↑ Joachim-Hermann Scharf: The nomina anatomica in the system of scientific language through the ages. In: Negotiations of the anatomical society. Volume 80, 1986, pp. 27-73.
  8. ↑ Member entry of Joachim-Hermann Scharf at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2013.
  9. ↑ Honorary Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society ( Memento from April 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ^ List of members of the Saxon Academy of Sciences
  11. ↑ Honorary members of the Leopoldina
personal data
SURNAME Sharp, Joachim-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Nebra (Unstrut)
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2014
Place of death Nebra (Unstrut)