Ortrun Riha

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Ortrun Riha (born April 27, 1959 in Schweinfurt ) is a German medical historian and director of the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig .

Ortrun Riha attended the Schillerschule in Schweinfurt from 1965 to 1969 and the Celtis grammar school there from 1969 to 1978 . She studied medicine at the University of Würzburg from 1978 to 1984 and German and art history from 1984 to 1989. In 1985 he received his doctorate in medicine and in 1989 in German. From 1985 to 1992 she was initially a freelance researcher for the medical historian Gundolf Keil and then a private lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. In 1990 she completed her habilitation there in the history of medicine . From April 1, 1992 to 1994, she received a Heisenberg grant in Göttingen . From 1994 to 1996 she was C3 professor in Lübeck , and since 1996 she has held the chair for the history of medicine in Leipzig . Riha has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 2003.

Her main research interests are medieval medicine , women and medicine, medicine in a cultural context and medical ethics.

Fonts (selection)

  • 'Master Alexander's Monthly Rules'. Investigations into a late medieval regime duodecim mensium with critical text output. (Medical dissertation Würzburg) Pattensen / Hanover, now at Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1985 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 30).
  • The weeping century. “Melancholy” in the Age of Enlightenment. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 4, 1986, pp. 23-38.
  • with Gundolf Keil : Knowledge regulating principles in pharmacopoeias of the Upper Rhine. In: Wolfgang Spiewok (Ed.): Results of the XXI. Annual meeting of the working group "German Literature of the Middle Ages". Greifswald 1989 (= Scientific articles from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. German Literature of the Middle Ages , 4), pp. 77–100.
  • Knowledge organization in collective medical manuscripts. Classification criteria and combination principles for texts without a work character. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1992 (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages. Writings of the Collaborative Research Center 226 Würzburg / Eichstätt. Volume 9). ISBN 3-88226-537-X . (also medical habilitation thesis, Würzburg 1990)
  • Ortolf von Baierland and his Latin sources. University medicine in the vernacular. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1992 (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages. Volume 10), ISBN 3-88226-538-8 .
  • Make a book out of all books. The conception of Ortolf's 'Pharmacopoeia'. In: Gundolf Keil (Ed.): “Make a teutsch bad luck”. Investigations into the national language conveyance of medical knowledge (= Ortolf studies. 1). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1993 (= knowledge literature in the Middle Ages. Volume 11), ISBN 3-88226-539-6 , pp. 15–38.
  • with Gundolf Keil: observations on Ortolf's style and rhetorical demands. In: Gundolf Keil (Hrsg.): “Ein teutsch puechmachen” […] , pp. 1–14.
  • Gilbertus Anglicus and his 'Compendium medicinae'. Work technique and knowledge organization. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 78, 1994, pp. 59-79.
  • Ethics in medicine. An introduction. Shaker, Aachen 1998. ISBN 3-8265-3562-6 .
  • Medical terminology. 3rd edition, Verlag Wissenschaftliche Scripten, Zwickau 2003. ISBN 3-928921-37-1 .
  • Microcosm human. The concept of nature in medieval medicine. In: Peter Dilg (Hrsg.): Nature in the Middle Ages: Conceptions - Experiences - Effects. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-05-003778-4 , pp. 111–123.
  • Codification of Medical Ethics: From the Hippocratic Oath to the Geneva Vow. Hirzel, Leipzig and Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-7776-2094-7 .
  • with Thomas Schmuck: "The general law": Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) and the great discourses of the 19th century. Shaker, Aachen 2011. ISBN 978-3-8440-0384-0
  • The pharmacopoeia of Ortolf von Baierland. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2014. ISBN 978-3-95490-015-2 .
  • Medieval healing art. The pharmacopoeia of Ortolf von Baierland (around 1300). Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag , Baden-Baden 2014. ISBN 978-3-86888-071-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ortrun Riha: 'Master Alexander's Monthly Rules'. Investigations into a late medieval regime duodecim mensium with critical text output. (Medical dissertation Würzburg) Pattensen / Hanover, now at Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1985 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 30).
  2. ↑ Research on Heinrich Wittenwiler's "Ring" 1851–1988. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1990. ISBN 3-88479-487-6 . (also German dissertation 1989).
  3. ↑ Ortrun Riha on the homepage of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
personal data
SURNAME Riha, Ortrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt