Karl-Heinz Leven

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Karl-Heinz Leven (born April 14, 1959 in Uerdingen ) is a German medical historian . His main research interests are the ancient and Byzantine medical history , the Hippocratic oath , epidemic history , medicine and war and the history of medical ethics .

Live and act

Leven studied medicine, history and classical philology at the University of Bonn and Düsseldorf from 1977 to 1986 . In 1985 he received his license to practice medicine . With the medical history dissertation Medical with Eusebios von Kaisareia , Leven received his doctorate in medicine in 1987 with Hans Schadewaldt at the University of Düsseldorf .

From 1986 to 1987 Leven was a research assistant at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg and then until 1988 at the Düsseldorf University Institute for the History of Medicine .

Since 1988 Leven has worked at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , initially as an assistant to Eduard Seidler , from 1995 to 1999 as a senior assistant to Ulrich Tröhler and then as an academic adviser .

In 1993 Leven completed his habilitation in the history of medicine and on February 1, 2000, he became an adjunct professor at the University of Freiburg.

Since 2009 he has been a full professor for the history of medicine and director of the Institute for the history and ethics of medicine at the University of Erlangen .

On November 23, 2011, Karl-Heinz Leven was elected a member ( matriculation no. 7455 ) of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

  • Medical with Eusebios of Kaisareia. (= Düsseldorf works on the history of medicine. Volume 62). Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1987, DNB 870545396 .
  • as editor: Self-images of the doctor in the 20th century. Medical historical and medical ethical aspects. (= Freiburg research on the history of medicine. Volume 16). Schulz, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-87733-515-2 .
  • Hippocrates: Selected Writings. Translated from the Greek and edited by Hans Diller . With a bibliographical appendix by Karl-Heinz Leven. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-009319-8 .
  • The history of infectious diseases. From antiquity to the 20th century. (= Advances in preventive and occupational medicine. Volume 6). ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1997, ISBN 3-609-51220-2 .
  • with Eduard Seidler : History of Medicine and Nursing. 7th, revised and expanded edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-17-017624-9 .
  • with Hans-Georg Hofer (Ed.): The Freiburg Medical Faculty under National Socialism. (= Catalog of an exhibition of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Freiburg). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50576-2 .
  • as editor: Ancient Medicine. A lexicon. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-52891-0 .
  • History of Medicine - From Antiquity to the Present. (= CH Beck Wissen . No. 2452). Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56252-5 .
  • Apollo's sun over the west. Medicine between Orient and Occident. Palm & Enke, Erlangen / Jena 2011, ISBN 978-3-7896-1601-3 .
  • with Philipp Rauh: Ernst Wilhelm Baader (1892–1962) and occupational medicine during National Socialism. (= Medical history in context. Volume 18). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64327-3 .
  • with Andreas Plöger (ed.): 200 years of Erlangen University Hospital, 1815–2015. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-22543-8 .

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Leven. In: Website of the Medical Faculty of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Leven, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen