Lykke Aresin

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Lykke Aresin (1970)

Lykke Aresin (née Bauer, born March 2, 1921 in Bernburg (Saale) ; † November 7, 2011 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor and sexologist .

Life

Lykke Aresin was the daughter of a general practitioner. She was of Danish descent, from which her first name results. As a child she showed a great interest in her father's job.

She passed her Abitur at the Carolinum Bernburg high school . From 1940 to 1945 she studied medicine in Göttingen and Jena, completed her doctorate in 1945, trained as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry in Jena and then worked as a senior physician at the Medical Academy in Erfurt . Aresin moved to Leipzig in 1959 , from 1960 worked as a senior physician in the university women's clinic there and headed the marriage and sexual counseling center that had been affiliated with it since 1949. In 1964 she became an associate professor at the University of Leipzig and in 1969 received a professorship for neurology and psychiatry here, and in 1981 she retired. In 1990 she was one of the co-founders of Pro Familia Sachsen. In the same year she founded one of the first transsexual counseling centers in the GDR, after having dealt with the care and counseling of transsexuals since the 1970s.

She was married to the gynecologist Norbert Aresin .

Services

Lykke Aresin became known to a large public through the volumes she co-edited Jugend zu zwei (1978) and Junge Ehe (1982) in the Youth Lexicon series of the Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig , in which she devoted herself to sexual problems with an openness that was previously unusual in the GDR .

She was a delegate of the GDR in the International Planned Parenthood Federation .

She has published over 200 scientific and popular scientific works and contributions in the field of sexology.

Publications (selection)

  • Psychopathological, psychiatric and neurological aspects of pregnancy. Thieme, Leipzig 1976.
  • with A. Müller-Hegemann: Jugendlexikon: Jugend zu zwei. Leipzig 1978.
  • with A. Müller-Hegemann: Youth Lexicon: Young marriage. Leipzig 1984.
  • as ed. with Erwin Günther: Sexualmedizin. Student textbook. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1983; 3rd edition, subtitled A Guide for Medical Students , ibid. 1988.
  • as ed. with Helga Hörz , Hannes Hüttner and Hans Szewczyk : Lexikon der Humansexuologie. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-333-00410-0 .
  • Lexikon der Erotik (with Kurt Starke ), Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-77174-8 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lykke Aresin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice, Leipziger Volkszeitung from November 19, 2011, p. 23 ( Memento from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Aresin, Lykke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2011
Place of death Leipzig