Renate Wittern-Sterzel

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Renate Wittern-Sterzel (born November 30, 1943 in Bautzen as Renate Wittern ) is a German medical historian .

Life

She attended school and a modern-language grammar school in Hamburg from 1950 to 1963 and then studied classical philology , ancient history and the history of medicine in Hamburg , Kiel and Heidelberg . In 1965 she was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation as a scholarship holder . In 1972, she was at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel with one of Hans Diller supervised dissertation on a topic from the Corpus Hippocraticum Dr. phil. PhD. She then worked as a research assistant for the Vice President of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 1973 to 1979 she was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There she completed her habilitation in 1978 for the subject of history of medicine in the field of human medicine and was appointed private lecturer in 1979 .

In 1980 she was appointed head of the newly established Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart. There she devoted herself primarily to the history of homeopathy .

In 1985 she received a call to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and was appointed full professor for the history of medicine and head of the institute for the history of medicine. In 2001 the institute was expanded to become the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine. In 2008 she retired.

According to her doctorate at a philosophy faculty, but habilitation at a medical one, she is particularly open to interdisciplinary institutions and is a member of several interdisciplinary centers [IZ] at the University of Erlangen: the IZ Aesthetic Education , the IZ Old World , the IZ for European Middle Ages - and Renaissance Studies , the IZ for Gerontology , the IZ Literature and Culture of the Present and the Central Institute for Applied Ethics and Scientific Communication , in whose collegial management she is involved.

At the Friedrich-Alexander-University she performed numerous additional tasks: From 1989 to 1991 she was the university's first women's representative . From 2002 to 2006 she was the university's prorector . As such she initiated the Equal Opportunities Prize of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, which was awarded for the first time at the Dies academicus 2005, and donated the first prize money of € 10,000.00. From 1993 to 2001 she was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation. Since 1998 she has been chairwoman of the Erlangen Research Commission. She is a deputy member of the ethics committee of the medical faculty and a member of the clinical ethics committee .

In 1989 she turned down an offer at Heidelberg University for private reasons.

She was and is active in various scientific organizations in her field. From 1997 to 2005 she was a representative of the history of medicine in the German National Committee of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science . From 1999 to 2002 she was first chairwoman of the Medical History Association , and from 2001 to 2003 she was deputy chairwoman of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, responsible for the field of medical history.

From 2000 to 2004 she was a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation in the field of history of biology, medicine and pharmacy, and since 2004 she has been a member of the German Research Foundation's review board for historical sciences.

Her scientific rank was recognized by her admission to academies and colleges: In 1994 she was appointed as a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . From 1999 to 2001 she was a member of the Medieval Working Group of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel . Since 2005 she has been a full member of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . There she was elected chairman of the commission for the history of medicine and natural sciences. This is in charge of, among other things, the Medical History Journal , an internationally high-ranking scientific journal, of which it is one of the editors.

Since October 1, 2007 Wittern-Sterzel member of the University Council of the University of Bamberg . In 2009 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry by Renate Wittern-Sterzel at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 11.06.17
personal data
SURNAME Wittern-Sterzel, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittern, Renate (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen