Johannes Huber (doctor, 1946)

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Johannes Huber (born May 31, 1946 in Bruck an der Leitha ) is an Austrian physician and theologian .

Life

Huber attended the federal high school in Hollabrunn , where he passed the Matura in 1965 . He then studied Catholic theology and medicine at the University of Vienna . In 1973 he received his doctorate in theology and in 1975 his doctorate in medicine, and from 1973 to 1983 he was one of two personal secretaries to Cardinal Franz König . In 1985 he completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna on "Structural and numerical chromosome aberrations in gynecological malignancies". From 1992 to 2011 Huber was Professor and Head of the Clinical Department for Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the University of Vienna and (from 2004) at the Medical University of Vienna . From 1995 to 1996 he temporarily headed the entire gynecological clinic at Vienna General Hospital . From 2001 to 2006 he was chairman of the Bioethics Commission, as well as a member of the Supreme Sanitary Council and corresponding member of the Alpbach Board of Trustees . He is a member of numerous national and international scientific organizations.

His research and publication activities focus on women's health, reproductive medicine , endocrinology and interdisciplinary gynecology . Huber works mainly as an endocrinologist.

In 2007 he became known to a broad German public through a self-experiment carried out by journalist Robert Buchacher with the anti-aging methods developed by Huber and reported on by PM Magazin .

Act

In 1978 Huber organized a symposium on Faith and Knowledge in Munich under the patronage of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and, together with Oskar Schatz, designed a congress volume with contributions by Viktor Frankl , Golo Mann , Konrad Lorenz , Rupert Riedl and Erich Fromm (Faith and Knowledge, Herder , 1980).

In 1985 he and Uli Märkle prepared the performance of the Coronation Mass with Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as part of a pontifical ministry celebrated by Pope John Paul II .

In the same year, together with Markus Metka and T. Haromi, he published the world's first intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for male infertility.

As a department head at Vienna General Hospital , he set up the first and only ambulance in Austria for transsexual and transgender people.

Internationally, he published mainly in Anglo-Saxon journals.

He gained particular fame through lectures, courses and several books on age research and anti-aging , hormone and gynecology and healthy living, some of which Alfred Worm co-authored.

Among other things, Huber polarized the discussion about advance directives. When asked whether a doctor could administer a life-saving blood transfusion to a woman during a caesarean section with severe blood loss against her will, he replied that it would take a lot of hardship, mother and child in such a case because of the religious beliefs of the Letting family die. After the Living Will Act came into force, he demanded understanding for colleagues who, in such cases, disregard the patient's express will with a decision of conscience, if this was based on a "theologically incorrect" background.

In the discussion about the right to life, he expressed his understanding for terminating pregnancy with non-viable children who, due to severe impairments, would definitely die at birth at the latest, using the most humane medical method available at any time.

2007–2010 he was under criticism for speaking too euphorically about the possible benefits of a commercially available cancer therapy.

In 2008 he wrote the book “Blueprints of Creation - Does the World Have a Master Builder?” Together with the physicist Walter Thirring . In his books "It Exists - Science Discovers the Invisible" (2016) and "The Holistic Human Being - We Are More Than the Sum of Our Organs" (2017) he argued that science and theology are not opposites. He is of the opinion that evolution does not only proceed “by random”, but also “directed”, ie controlled. Huber had a correspondence with Sir Karl Popper on this subject , which is archived and can be looked up in the American Sir Karl Popper Collection. His statements in the border area between science and theology have made him the target of criticism. In November 2017, he was nominated, along with two others, for the negative award Goldenes Brett vorm Kopf , which is awarded by the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences .

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On the one hand, there is no evidence for the said allegation. On the other hand, it is doubtful whether the addendum to the last sentence knows the difference between "transcendental" and "transcendent".

The accusation reported in the news magazine Profil was that Huber was using his authority as a doctor to make transcendent content the subject.

Awards

Fonts

  • Hormones for beauty. Ariston, Kreuzlingen / Munich 1997, ISBN 3-720-51706-3 .
  • with Christian Gruber, Doris Gruber: “Live longer with the wisdom of the monasteries”. Ancient knowledge, checked according to the latest criteria. Jentzsch, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7142-0002-9 .
  • The end of aging. Breakthrough medical opportunities for rejuvenation, stem cell therapy, organ rejuvenation. Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-36951-8 .
  • with Walter Thirring: blueprints of creation. Does the world have an architect? Seifert, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902406-73-6 .
  • It exists - science discovers the invisible. edition a, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99001-168-3 .
  • The holistic person - we are more than the sum of our organs. edition a, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99001-230-7 .
  • Where we come from Who we are. Where we are going. - The exploration of eternity. edition a, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99001-278-9 .
  • The anatomy of fate - What guides us , edition a, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99001-326-7 .

literature

  • Robert Buchacher: Anti-Aging. How I ran away from old age In: PM magazine. No. 2 February 2007, p. 68 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Hospital of the City of Vienna - Medical University Campus - Vienna General Hospital - Transgender Ambulance. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ [1] Bioethics. When patients prefer to die. The press , June 23, 2005
  3. ↑ ZIB 2 , April 29, 2006
  4. ↑ [2] Press release Format , July 25, 2002
  5. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Again massive criticism of Johannes Huber . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on November 15, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Martin Kotynek: The Praise of Professor Huber . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 15, 2017]).
  7. ↑ "Hormone Pope" Huber nominated for "Goldenes Brett vorm Kopf" . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed November 14, 2017]).
  8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  9. ↑ Johannes Huber receives Opilio Rossi Medal , pro-medienmagazin.de, article from June 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician, university professor for endocrinology and chairman of the Austrian bioethics commission
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Leitha