Johannes W. Rohen

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Johannes Wilhelm Rohen (born September 18, 1921 in Münster ) is a German anatomist , Goetheanist and anthroposophist .

Life

From 1940 to 1946 Rohen studied human medicine at the Universities of Cologne , Freiburg , Breslau and Danzig .

After the state examination in 1946 at the University of Tübingen and his doctorate at the same location the following year, he assisted as an assistant doctor at various clinics. In 1953 he completed his habilitation in anatomy and embryology at the anatomical institute of the University of Mainz and then worked there as an assistant.

His research stays took him from 1959 to 1960 to the Department of Ophthalmology at Washington University in St. Louis and a few months later to the Anatomical Institutes of Ahwaz ( Iran ) and Kampala ( Uganda ). They expanded his scientific experience, especially in the fields of eye and aging research.

In 1963 he was appointed to an associate professor at the University of Giessen and the following year to a chair in anatomy at the University of Marburg . In 1974 Rohen moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he held the chair for anatomy and headed the anatomical institute until 1991. At over 90 years of age, he still holds the traditional introductory lecture for medical students in Erlangen.

Since the 1940s, Johannes W. Rohen had been concerned with Goethean and anthroposophical ideas on anthropology . He published the fruit of this occupation in 2000 in his book Morphology of the Human Organism - An attempt at a Goethean theory of human shapes .

Awards

Johannes W. Rohen was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1985. For his success in glaucoma research , he was one of the few to receive the highly endowed Alcon Research Award , the Albrecht von Graefe Prize of the German Ophthalmological Society , of which he is an honorary member, at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University . In 2007 he and Elke Lütjen-Drecoll were honored with the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research in Fort Lauderdale (USA). In 2012 Rohen received the Anton Waldeyer Prize . Rohen is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and an honorary member of the Italian Society for Anatomy.

Publications

A large number of publications and textbooks characterize his life's work. His most important work is the Photographic Atlas of “Human Anatomy”, which, thanks to its photographs of high-quality and detailed specimens, has a top position worldwide. It has been translated into 17 languages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rohen JW (2000): Morphology of the human organism - attempt at a Goethean theory of human shapes . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-7725-1998-9 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Johannes W. Rohen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ member entry of John W. Raw at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
  4. ↑ Johannes W. Rohen and Chihiro Yokochi: Anatomie des Menschen. Photographic atlas of systematic and topographical anatomy. I – II, Schattauer , Stuttgart and New York, 1982 and 1983; 7th edition ibid 2011, ISBN 978-3-7945-2706-9 , [1]


personal data
SURNAME Rohen, Johannes W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohen, Johannes Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster