Klaus Bergdolt

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Klaus Bergdolt (born December 6, 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a German ophthalmologist, medical and art historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1966 at the humanistic Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , Bergdolt began studying law in 1967 , but switched to medicine in 1968 . He studied in Tübingen , Vienna and Heidelberg . In 1975 the doctorate to Dr. med. He then worked as an assistant at Heidelberg University Hospital , where he successfully completed his specialist training as an ophthalmologist in 1981.

From 1981 to 1986 Bergdolt then studied history , art history , Christian archeology and religious studies in Heidelberg and Florence . In 1986 he was awarded a doctorate summa cum laude in Heidelberg with his dissertation “The third commentary by Lorenzo Ghiberti : Natural science and medicine in the art theory of the early Renaissance”. phil. PhD. In 1989, in Würzburg , where he had a teaching position as a private lecturer until his appointment to Venice, he completed his habilitation in medical history ( doctor and illness with Petrarch ).

From 1990 to 1995 Bergdolt was director of the German Study Center in Venice , from 1995 to 2014 full professor for the history and ethics of medicine and director of the Institute for the history and ethics of medicine at the University of Cologne . Ferdinand Peter Moog, Daniel Schäfer and Christiane Woopen completed their habilitation with him .

During this time, guest lectures and visiting professorships took him to numerous universities in Germany and abroad (including Padua , Messina , Santiago de Chile , Princeton and Beijing ). From 1995 to 2005 he was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation. Bergdolt is a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Salzburg. From 2003 to 2013 he was chairman of the Renaissance working group of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel . He is an honorary member of the Accademia di Storia dell'Arte Sanitaria in Rome. Bergdolt was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal for Medical Ethics for many years and is co-editor of Sudhoff's archive . From 2001 to 2017 he headed the ethics consultancy at the University Hospital Cologne . From 2005 to 2013 he was chairman of the association of the German Study Center in Venice , whose scientific program he played a major role, as well as publisher of scientific Studi series of the institute. In 2017 he was made an honorary member of the German Study Center in Venice. From 2013 to 2016 he was a member of the National AIDS Advisory Board as an expert in the history of epidemics, and from 2014 to 2017 he headed the Society of Friends and Supporters of the German Medical History Museum in Ingolstadt.

The scientific focus is on the history of the plague and epidemics, healthy living ( dietetics ), the history of medical ethics and the medical and cultural history of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance , especially in Italy and Venice . Bergdolt also published on the history of German-Italian relations. In 2012 his book "Germans in Venice" was published, and in 2018 the historical analysis "Criminal, corrupt, Catholic? Italians in German prejudice".

From 2003 to 2016 Bergdolt was a board member of the association "Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Museum Ludwig" in Cologne, where he devoted himself particularly to the program of the "Young Art Friends". He is also a member of the board of the Friends of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne (since 2014).

From the winter semester 1966/67 until he left in 2001 he was a member of the student association AV Igel Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Aortic arch syndrome and its risk factors. 1975, (At the same time: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1976).
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti's third comment. Natural Sciences and Medicine in Early Renaissance Art Theory. Introduced, commented and translated. Verlag Chemie - Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-527-17610-1 (also: Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1986).
  • The plague in Italy in 1348. Fifty contemporary sources. With an afterword by Gundolf Keil , Heidelberg 1989.
  • Doctor, illness and therapy at Petrarch. The Critique of Medicine and Science in Early Italian Humanism. Verlag Chemie - Acta Humaniora, Weinheim an der Bergstrasse 1992, ISBN 3-527-17775-2 (At the same time: Würzburg, University, habilitation thesis with a different subtitle: Studies on medical criticism in early Italian humanism. 1991).
  • The Black Death in Europe. The Great Plague and the End of the Middle Ages. CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38064-6 ; 4th edition ibid 2017, ISBN 978-3406705946 .
  • Body and soul. A cultural history of healthy living. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45426-7 ( Wellbeing. A cultural History of Healthy Living. Polity, Cambridge et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7456-2914-8 ).
  • The conscience of medicine. Medical Morals from Ancient Times to Today. Beck, 2004, ISBN 3-406-52192-4 ( review ).
  • The plague. History of the Black Death (= Beck series. 2411). Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-53611-5 .
  • Germans in Venice. From the emperors of the Middle Ages to Thomas Mann. Primus, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-89678-738-5 .
  • Criminal, Corrupt, Catholic? Italians in German prejudice. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12123-1

Editorships

  • with Justus Müller Hofstede , Bernd Roeck and Gunter Schweikart: What future for Venice? The lagoon city between preservation and renewal. = Quale futuro per Venezia? La città lagunare tra conservazione rinnovamento (= Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani. Quaderni. 46). Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani et al., Venice et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7995-4746-0 .
  • with Bernd Roeck and Andrew John Martin: Venice and Upper Germany in the Renaissance. Relations between art and economy (= Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani. Studi. 9) Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1993, ISBN 3-7995-2709-5 .
  • Alvise Cornaro : From a measured life. Manutius, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-925678-24-7 (2nd, revised edition. Ibid 1997, ISBN 3-925678-68-9 ).
  • with Jochen Brüning: Art and its clients in the 16th century. Venice and Augsburg in comparison (= Colloquia Augustana. Vol. 5). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-002823-8 .
  • with Walther Ludwig : future predictions in the Renaissance (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. Vol. 23). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05289-9 .
  • with Berndt Hamm and Andreas Tönnesmann : The child in the Renaissance (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. Vol. 25). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05762-2 .
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam : Encomium artis medicae / Praise of the healing arts. Latin / German. Manutius, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-934877-64-1 .
  • with Joachim Knape , Anton Schindling and Gerrit Walther : Sebastian Brant and the culture of communication around 1500 (= Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung. Vol. 26). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06300-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for History and Ethics at the University of Cologne - short biography of Klaus Bergdolt. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hedgehog Directory 1871-2011. No. 969.
personal data
SURNAME Bergdolt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart