Peter Voswinckel

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Peter Voswinckel (* 1951 in Soest ) is a German medical historian .

Life

Voswinckel went to school in Soest. After graduating from high school in 1970, he began studying history and philosophy as well as human medicine. In 1981 he received his license to practice medicine. Voswinckel initially worked as an assistant doctor in hematology and oncology in Munich and Karlsruhe. In 1985 he began to work in the subject of medical history and completed his habilitation in Aachen in 1990. From 1992 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science in Lübeck.

His main research interests were in the field of medical biography and emigration research.

In 1997 Voswinckel was appointed adjunct professor at RWTH Aachen University. After 2002 he initially worked as a freelance medical historian and in 2012 took over the management of the newly established historical research center and the archive of the German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology .

Publications

  • The Seveso case. Short version of a seminar presentation with pictures. Seminar on environmental problems with special consideration of radiation exposure, University of Münster, WS 76/77. Institute for Radiation Biology. Klartext, Bremen 1977.
  • Doctor and car. The car and its world in the mirror of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt from 1907 to 1975 (= studies on the history of medicine, art and literature. Vol. 4). Murken-Altrogge, Münster 1981, ISBN 3-921801-06-0 .
  • 50 years of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology. Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 1987, ISBN 3-921801-47-8 .
  • The black urine. From horror to laboratory parameter. Urina nigra. Alkaptonuria, hemoglobinuria, myoglobinuria, porphyrinuria, melanuria. Blackwell Wissenschaft, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89412-123-8 .
  • as editor: Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Volume III: Supplements and Supplements (Abad Comp). Olms, Hildesheim 2002, ISBN 3-487-11659-6 .
  • Guided paths. The Lübeck martyrs in words and pictures. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2010, ISBN 978-3-7666-1391-2 .
  • Documents on the subject of Lübeck Martyrs 1941–1945, on behalf of the Cultural Office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, funded by the non-profit Sparkassenstiftung zu Lübeck, compiled by Peter Voswinckel. Without publisher, Lübeck 2011
  • Crab barracks memorial site. Clarifications about the first interdisciplinary cancer research institute in Germany (Berlin, Charité). 1st edition 2014, 2nd reviewed and expanded edition 2019. German Society for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO), Berlin, ISBN 978-3-9816354-2-3 .
  • The buried face of the Secretary General. Search for traces as a posthumous tribute to Prof. George Meyer (1860–1923). At the same time a teaching piece in medical history. German Society for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO), Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816354-8-5 .
  • Dr. med. Josef Löbel, Franzensbad / Berlin (1882–1942). Ambassador of a cheerful German medicine feuilleton in Vienna - Berlin - Prague . 1st edition 2018, 2nd reviewed and expanded edition 2019. German Society for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO), Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818079-4-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Voswinckel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest