Nicholas Mani

Nikolaus Mani (born March 19, 1920 in Andeer ; † January 16, 2001 in Basel ) was a Swiss medical historian.

Life

Mani's parents were teachers. He studied medicine from 1940 to 1947 at the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva . In 1951 he was at the University of Basel to the Dr. med. PhD . From 1957 to 1964 he was a research assistant and librarian at the University Library of Basel . In 1959 he was also awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1964 he completed his habilitation in medical history . From 1964 to 1971 he was professor for the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , from 1971 until his retirement in 1987 as the successor of Johannes Steudel at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Fonts

• The historical foundations of liver research; I: The concepts of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the liver in antiquity; II: The History of Liver Research from Galen to Claude Bernard. Basel and Stuttgart 1959 and 1967 (= Basel publications on the history of medicine and biology , 9 and 21).
• Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn. Medicine. Edited by Nikolaus Mani, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1992
• Scientific medicine from 1820 to 1900. In: Medicine, Romanticism and Natural Research. Bonn in the mirror of the 19th century. Edited by Heinz Schott , Bouvier, Bonn 1993

literature

• Friedrun R. Hau , Gundolf Keil , Charlotte Schubert (eds.): "Istorgia dalla Madaschegna". Festschrift for Nikolaus Mani. Wellm, Pattensen 1985 (with catalog raisonné).
• Gesnerus . Vol. 58 (2001), pp. 350-353.
• Heinz Schott: Nikolaus Mani † In: Würzburg medical history reports 20 (2001), p. 547 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Mani in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hubert Steinke : Mani, Nikolaus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philosophical dissertation: The conception of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the liver in antiquity .