Paul Weindling

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Paul Julian Weindling (born July 24, 1953 in Perivale , Middlesex ) is a British medical historian .

Life

Paul Weindling is the son of a dentist who emigrated from Austria before the National Socialists and an Austrian who came to England on a children's transport . The jazz promoter Oliver Weindling is a brother of his. He studied history at the University of Oxford , received his MA from University College London, and received his doctorate there. From 1978 to 1998 he worked at the “Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine” at the University of Oxford. In 1998 he was appointed Research Professor of the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University .

Weindling from 1999 to 2004 member of the research group at the Max Planck Society , the history of the Society Kaiser Wilhelm in the era of National Socialism explored.

He was in charge of a project of the Arts and Humanities Research Council on Jewish-German emigration. He also worked on the history of the Robert Koch Institute . He carried out advisory tasks for the DFG , the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Swiss National Science Foundation and advises the German foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” .

Since 2014 he has headed a group that researches the history of German psychiatry under National Socialism.

Weindling has published on the history of eugenics , public health and disease patterns in the 20th century. He also works biographically and has submitted a biography on psychiatrist John West Thompson.

Weindling is a trustee of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics .

In 2014 he was elected to the Leopoldina and in 2015 he received an Anneliese Maier Research Award .

Fonts (selection)

  • Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust . London: Bloomsbury, announced for 2015
  • In Defense of Learning: The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s , 2011
  • International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II , 2010
  • John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust . Rochester Studies in Medical History, Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press 2010
  • with Marius Turda: Blood And Homeland . Central European University Press. 2006
  • Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical Warcrimes to Informed Consent . Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan: 2004
  • Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
  • L'hygiène de la race. L'hygiène raciale et l'eugénisme médical en l'allemagne 1870-1933 . Paris: La Découverte, 1998
  • International health organizations and movements: 1918-1939 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995
  • Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989 (paperback 1993; ISBN 0-521-42397-X ).
  • Darwinism and Social Darwinism in Imperial Germany: The Contribution of the Cell Biologist Oscar Hertwig (1849-1922) . = Research on the history of medicine and biology vol. 3, Stuttgart: G. Fischer, 1991
  • "Mustergau" Thuringia. Racial hygiene between ideology and power politics. In: Norbert Frei (Hrsg.): Medicine and health policy in the Nazi era. Munich 1991 (= writings of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue). Pp. 81-97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traude Bollauf: Maid Emigration: The Flight of Jewish Women from Austria and Germany to England 1938/39 . Vienna: Lit, 2010, p. 160
  2. ↑ Member entry of Paul Weindling (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Weindling, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weindling, Paul Julian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Perivale , Middlesex