Kurt Kochsiek
Kurt Kochsiek (born March 3, 1930 in Oerlinghausen ; † December 3, 2013 in Würzburg ) was a German internist .
Career
Kochsiek attended elementary school and the rectorate school in Oerlinghausen. In 1950 he passed the Abitur at the Leopoldinum in Detmold. He then studied medicine in Mainz from the summer semester of the same year , a winter semester 1952/1953 in Göttingen , the summer semester 1953 in Zurich and then in Heidelberg , where he passed the state examination in 1955, worked at the Institute of Pathology and in October 1956 with a thesis on the normal and pathological morphology of the auricular ears to Dr. med. received his doctorate . During his studies in Mainz in 1950 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller .
He continued his medical training in Heidelberg, from the end of 1956 as a medical assistant at the Medical Clinic in Göttingen, where he developed the cold thinning method for examinations with the cardiac catheter and thus obtained his habilitation in 1963. Kochsiek also met his future wife in Göttingen and their four children were born there. For several years the student of Rudolf Schoen and Werner Creutzfeldt worked in Göttingen as a senior physician in charge. From 1973 to 1980 he was full professor for internal medicine and medical director of Department III of the Medical Clinic at the University of Tübingen .
On September 1, 1980, he switched to the chair for internal medicine at the University of Würzburg and in this function also took over the management of the Medical Clinic I, where he set up a physiologically and later also molecularly oriented cardiovascular research. From 1989 to 1991 he was Dean of the Medical Faculty and from 1994 to 1997 Medical Director of the University Hospital Würzburg . In 1998 he retired.
From 1987 to 1989 he was chairman of the Science Council . In 1989 he was admitted to the Leopoldina and was a member of the executive committee there from 1999 to 2004.
Honors
- 1989: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1993: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1997: Honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine
- 1999: Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research
- 2010: Honorary Senator of the University of Würzburg
- 2010: Gustav von Bergmann Medal
- 2012: Rinecker medal in gold
- Honorary member and honorary doctorate from Humboldt University
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
literature
- Kurt Kochsiek: 50 Years of Internal Medicine (lecture on the occasion of the 1st alumni meeting of the former employees of the Medical University Clinic Würzburg on September 28, 2002 in the garden pavilion of the Juliusspital Würzburg). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 2, 2003, pp. 541-547.
- Kurt Kochsiek, Peter Peter Deeg: The history of the medical university clinic in the Luitpold hospital 1921–1981. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 909–919; here: p. 919.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. p. 175.
Web links
- Doctors honor Kurt Kochsiek , press release of the University of Würzburg from May 29, 2012
- Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc mult. Kurt Kochsiek has passed away , press release from the University of Würzburg on December 9, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kochsiek, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oerlinghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 2013 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |