Rainer Nabielek

Rainer Nabielek (born July 11, 1944 in Neutitschein ) is a German medical historian , sexologist and orientalist .

Rainer Nabielek made 1962 the Abitur at the Arnoldi School in Gotha , was after graduation as DDR - diplomat working in Libya and Syria. In 1970 he became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1977 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the pseudo-galenic script "About sleep and being awake" . The reviewers were Dietrich Tutzke , Heinrich Simon and Johannes Irmscher . It was the first scientific publication of the work, including translation into German and commentary. Between August 1989 and January 1990 Nabielek acted as acting head of the institute. In 1987 he was elected secretary of the Society for the History of Medicine in the GDR. In November 1990 he received his doctorate B with a paper on sexuality and sexual hygiene in Islam , the reviewers of which were Peter Schneck , Wolfram Kaiser and Holger Preißler . He then became a private lecturer at the institute. He then worked as a private lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Berlin Charité . His research focuses on the history of sexual medicine and sexuality, especially in the Islamic world.

Fonts

• The ps [eudo] galenical work “On Sleep and Waking” published, translated and explained for the first time. Humboldt University, Berlin 1977 [unprinted dissertation].
• Sexuality and Sexual Hygiene in Islam. Humboldt University, Berlin 1990 [unprinted dissertation B].
• Biology of the Middle Ages , Berlin, Schiler 2006. ISBN 3-89930-124-2 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 447.

supporting documents

1. ^ General Secretariat of the Medical-Scientific Societies at the Ministry of Health of the GDR (Ed.): Directory of the Medical-Scientific Societies of the German Democratic Republic . March 31, 1989.