Karl Holubar

Karl Holubar (born June 3, 1936 in Vienna ; † January 6, 2013 ibid.) Was an Austrian dermatologist and medical historian .

Life

Holubar studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1954 and received his doctorate in 1960. In 1968 he studied abroad in Amsterdam . After his habilitation in dermatology and venereology in 1970, further studies took him to the USA from 1972 to 1973 . From 1975 he was associate professor , from 1980 to 1981 interim director of the 1st Vienna Dermatology Clinic . From 1983 to 1986 he was full professor for this subject and head of the Department of Dermatology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . 1986 followed his habilitation for the history of medicine. From 1989 to 2001 he was professor and head of the Institute for the History of Medicine in Vienna.

Awards

Holubar received several prizes and medals for his medical history work, especially on the history of dermatology. He was a member or honorary member of more than 30 medical societies, e.g. corresponding member of the Accademia Galileiana in Padua, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, honorary member of the German, Israeli, British, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian , Polish and other dermatological societies and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . He was Life Member of the American Academy of Dermatology , Honorary President of the European Society for the History of Dermato-Venerology and Vice-President of the Societé Française d´Histoire de la Dermatologie . In 2002 he was Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam .

Holubar was also an honorary member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 2000 the holder of the Great Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria .

He has written more than 570 scientific publications and several books. He was also co-editor and member of the editorial boards of general medicine, medical history and clinical-dermatological journals.

Works

• Chapter: basalioma , Malherbe epithelioma , basal cell nevus syndrome , intraepidermal epithelioma . In: Handbook of the skin and sex Krkh. , Supplementary work, Springer 1975, vol III / 3 1975, pp. 235–437
• 1890-1990: For the centenary of the Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venereology . In: Festschrift for the centenary celebration . Vienna 1990, pp. 11–31
• Challenge Dermatology . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 1993 (with C. Schmidt and K. Wolff)
• Sun and skin . Austrian Medical Association, Vienna, 1994 (with C. Schmidt)
• Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists . Parthenon, London, 2002 (with John Thorne Crisse and Lawrence Charles Parish)
• A brief history of the Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venereology with special reference to the years 1933-1945 . ÖGDV, Vienna, 2002 (with D Angetter)
• Skin in water colors . Blackwell, Oxford-Berlin 2003 (with S. Fatovic-Ferencic and Gerd Plewig )
• Off the Trodden Path. A dermato-historian's narrative. Nerval's and other diaries . Jentzsch, Vienna 2004
• Looking at eyes and faces . Austrian Ac Sci Press, Vienna 2006 (with S. Fatovic-Ferencic and G. Plewig)
• Terminology and medical language . Facultas Univ. Verlag Wien, 2007, expanded and supplemented edition
• History of German-speaking dermatology . Wiley, Weinheim 2009 (bilingual German-English, with A. Scholz and G. Burg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
2. ↑ obituary of Hubert Pehamberger, head of the Department of Dermatology at the Medical University of Vienna, on the side of the Austrian Society of Dermatology and Venereology