Magnus Schmid (medical historian)

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Magnus Franz Josef Schmid (born August 22, 1918 in Bischofsheim an der Rhön , † April 13, 1977 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German medical historian who worked in Erlangen and Munich .

Life

Magnus Schmid, son of a judge, attended schools in Landsberg , Neuburg , Bamberg and Kempten (Allgäu) , where he graduated from high school in March 1937. After the Reich Labor Service , he studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He graduated in 1945. He began his doctorate in the summer of 1943 with Martin Müller . The doctoral thesis The Physiological Problems of the Middle Ages, depicted in Thomas v. Aquin's “De motu cordis” along with the text supplement was not published until 1950. The reason for the late publication was the need to await his denazification process . He joined the NSDAP on January 20, 1941 and was also a member of the SA reserve. As part of the Christmas amnesty in 1946, he was described as “less encumbered” . It was not until 1949 that he received the notification that he was “unencumbered” and was then able to complete his doctoral process.

He worked closely with Martin Müller in the history of medicine while working as an assistant doctor in the university women's clinic. In 1952 he received a DFG grant - as the first medical historian to receive funding after 1945. Schmid completed his habilitation under Werner Leibbrand . In 1955 he received a diet lecturer at the University of Munich and a lectureship in the history of medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen . In 1956 he had his habilitation there. It was not until 1964 that he was appointed adjunct professor in Erlangen, and in 1966 he was appointed professor for the history of medicine.

After his appointment, he married the doctorate teacher Käthe Koschmieder in 1965.

As a result of the student revolts of the 1960s and 1970s, he began to vehemently oppose the release of abortion.

In 1971 he was appointed to the chair for the history of medicine and medical sociology at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich . He took Gerhard Pfohl from Erlangen with him and hired his sister Pia as an assistant. In Munich he vigorously campaigned against the release of abortion, thereby isolating himself very strongly. He developed skin cancer in the spring of 1977 and died on April 13, 1977.

Publications (selection)

  • The physiological problems of the Middle Ages, depicted in the writing of Thomas v. Aquin De motu cordis with text supplement , med. Dissertation Munich 1950.
  • Contributions to the history of the theories of circulatory diseases after the discovery of the blood circulation , unpublished typed habilitation thesis Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 1953.
  • The heart of the Salernitans. In: Atti de XIV. Congresso Internationale di Storia della Medicina, Vol. II, Roma Salerno 13-20. September 1954 (Reprint Schmidt M. 1954 in the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Erlangen).
  • The doctrine of homoiomeries in the physiology of Ferneis. In: Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences. Volume 41, 1957, pp. 317-344.
  • The medicine of the Dante period. In: German Dante Yearbook. Volume 40, 1963, pp. 111-144.
  • Medici Universitätis Altorfinae. In: Horst Claus Recktenwald (ed.): Scholars of the University of Altdorf Nuremberg. 1966, pp. 79-98.
  • Nuremberg medicine from the period of the Dürer to the medical regulations. In memory of Robert Herrlinger. In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt. 1971, No. 11–12, 1972, No. 2 (special print Schmidt M. 1972 in the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Erlangen).
  • About community and the preservation of human life. Abortion and euthanasia. In: Doctor and Christian. Volume 22, 1976, pp. 129-158.
  • The art of dying as an art of living. From the ars moriendi of the Middle Ages to true and false euthanasia today. In: Medical Practice. Volume 28, 1976, pp. 497-503.

literature

  1. ↑ Florian Mildenberger: In search of the right path. Life and work of the medical historian Magnus Schmid (1918–1977) . In: Michael Stolberg, Karen Nolte, Johannes G. Mayer, Ralf Vollmuth and Tilmann Walter (eds.): Würzburger medical history reports . tape 27 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, p. 203-224 .
  2. ↑ Astrid Ley: The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 1743-1960: Part 2: Medical faculty . Ed .: Renate Wittern. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1999, p. 164 f . ( kobv.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Magnus Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofsheim on the Rhön
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1977
Place of death Murnau