Paul Diepgen

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Grave of Paul Diepgen in the main cemetery in Mainz

Paul Diepgen (born November 24, 1878 in Aachen , † January 2, 1966 in Mainz ) was a German gynecologist and medical historian .

Life

After studying medicine and gynecological training at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig , Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau in Freiburg, Diepgen passed the medical state examination and was also awarded a doctorate in medicine in 1902. He was a member of the K.St.V. Arminia Bonn . From 1906 to 1929 he was a gynecologist and head of the gynecological and obstetric ward of the Freiburg Loretto Hospital. After studying history with Heinrich Finke , he also received his doctorate in philosophy in 1908. Although he in itself 1910 History of Medicine Habilitation could, he was first appointed associate professor of history of medicine in Freiburg 1920th In Freiburg, where Walter Artelt was one of his students, he held his medical history seminar exercises on the upper floor of the university building, where the faculty meetings also took place. In 1929 he was offered a full professorship for the history of medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he founded the Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences . In 1944 he retired. Nevertheless, after the end of the war, Diepgen made himself available to rebuild Berlin University and in 1947 accepted an appointment to an extraordinary professorship for the history of medicine at the University of Mainz , which was rededicated to a full professorship in 1949. He worked there until his death in 1966.

Diepgen was significantly involved in establishing the history of medicine in Berlin and supported the introduction of medical history (also to underpin the education in national political thinking, medical ethics and racial hygiene) as a compulsory subject, which took place in 1939. According to Florian Bruns and Andreas Frewer, his relationship to National Socialism was complex and ambivalent. He was never a member of the NSDAP , but rather suspicious of some of its representatives as a Catholic, but was nationally conservative with sympathy for the politics of the National Socialists (such as the invasion of Poland) and he had good relations with the Reich doctor of the SS Ernst Robert Grawitz and with Hitler's doctor Karl Brandt . The SS medical historian Bernward Gottlieb completed his habilitation (as did Alexander Berg , who, however, had been his doctoral student before his SS career ), and Gottlieb was finally selected as his successor to the Berlin chair under pressure from the SS in 1945 (whereby Diepgen who was quite in agreement and tried to promote Gottlieb and Berg even after the war).

Diepgen was an honorary doctorate from the University of Madrid and a member and honorary member of numerous national and international academies. In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His fields of work included the development of medicine in the Middle Ages and Romanticism, as well as the history of folk medicine and obstetrics and gynecology .

He was the grandfather of the later Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen .

Fonts (selection)

  • as publisher: Walter von Agilon: Gualteri Agilonis Summa medicinalis, based on the Munich Cod. Latin No. 325 and 13124, first edited with a comparative analysis of older medical compendia of the Middle Ages. Leipzig 1911.
  • Dream and dream interpretation as a medical and scientific problem in the Middle Ages. Berlin 1912.
  • Theology and the medical status. Berlin 1922.
  • History of Social Medicine (1934).
  • Medicine at the Berlin Charité until the university was founded . Berlin 1935
  • German folk medicine, scientific medicine and culture. Stuttgart 1935.
  • Scientific Medicine and Culture (1935).
  • Hippocrates or Paracelsus ? (1937).
  • The gynecology of the old world (= handbook of gynecology. Ed. By Walter Stoeckel , XII, part I: History of gynecology. Volume 1). Munich 1937.
  • Medicine and the Medical Profession: An Introduction. Berlin 1938; as: Introduction to the Study of Medicine 1951 in 4th edition published.
  • Medicine and culture. Collected essays on his 60th birthday on November 24, 1938 . Edited by Walter Artelt , Edith Heischkel , J. Schuster. Stuttgart: Enke 1938
  • Physical thinking in the history of medicine (1939).
  • with E. Rosner: To the honor of Virchow and the German cell researchers. In: Virchow's archive. Volume 307, 1941, pp. 457-489.
  • The doctor R. Virchow and the medicine of his time. In: Journal of the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 2, 1943.
  • History of medicine. The historical development of medicine and medical life. Berlin (and New York), volume. 1: 1949, Volume 2.1: 1951 ( From Enlightenment Medicine to the Founding of Cellular Pathology (approx. 1740 - approx. 1858). ), Volume 2.2: 1955.
  • On gynecology in the Byzantine culture of the Middle Ages (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1950, Volume 1). Verlag der Wissenschaft und der Literatur in Mainz (commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden).
  • The Doctor of the Church Augustine and Anatomy in the Middle Ages (1951).
  • The elixir. The most delicious of medicines. CH Boehringer Sohn, Ingelheim am Rhein 1951.
  • The anal suppository in the history of therapy. Stuttgart 1953.
  • On the influence of authoritative theology on medicine in the Middle Ages. Mainz 1958 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1958, No. 1).
  • with Heinz Goerke: Brief overview tables on the history of medicine . 7th edition. Springer, Mainz 1960 PMC 1034643 (free full text) (book advertisement )
  • Woman and gynecology in the culture of the Middle Ages. Stuttgart 1963

literature

  • Walter Artelt , Paul Diepgen on November 24, 1943 , in: Klinische Wochenschrift 22, 1943, 712, doi : 10.1007 / BF01768637 .
  • Paul Diepgen, 1878-1966 , in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 21, 1966, 189-190
  • Thomas Jaehn: The medical historian Paul Diepgen (1878–1966). An investigation into methodological, historiographical and contemporary problems and influences in the work of Paul Diepgen with special consideration of his personal role in teaching, science policy and science organization during the Third Reich. Dissertation Humboldt-Univ. Berlin 1991
  • Werner Friedrich Kümmel: Paul Diepgen as “senior” of his subject after 1945 , Medizinhistorisches Journal, Volume 49, 2014, pp. 10–44, JSTOR
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : Doctors Lexicon . Springer, Heidelberg 2006
  • Florian Bruns, Andreas Frewer: Technical history as a political issue: Medical historian Berlin and Graz in the service of the Nazi state , in: Medicine, Society and History, Yearbook of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Volume 24, 2005, p. 151– 180
  • Rainer Nabielek : Comments on Paul Diepgen's self-assessment of his work at Berlin University during the Nazi regime. In: Journal of the entire hygiene. Volume 31, 1985, pp. 309-314.

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notes

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler: The medical faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau: Basics and developments . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-06665-2 ( google.de [accessed September 4, 2017]).
  2. ^ Walter Artelt: Ernst Georg Short 1859-1937. [ Lecture given on October 1, 1963 at the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology e. V. in Schaffhausen and dedicated to my teacher Paul Diepgen on his upcoming 85th birthday on November 24, 1963 ]. Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the University, Frankfurt am Main 1963, p. III and p. 5.
  3. ↑ Benjamin Marcus: Institute for the History of Medicine . In: Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine . ( charite.de [accessed September 4, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Diepgen, Paul. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 306.
  5. ↑ Florian Bruns, Andreas Frewer: History as a political issue: Medical historian Berlin and Graz in the service of the Nazi state, in: Medicine, Society and History, Yearbook of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Volume 24, 2005, p. 151 –180, especially p. 157ff
  6. ↑ Bruns, Frewer, 2005, loc. cit., p. 171
  7. ^ Medicine at the Berlin Charité until the founding of the | NA Diepgen | Jumper . ( springer.com [accessed September 4, 2017]).
  8. ^ Interpretation of Paracelsus as a "German physician" in contrast to "Jewish-Greek" medicine, entirely in line with the National Socialists, cf. also the film from 1942/1943
personal data
SURNAME Diepgen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1966
Place of death Mainz