Richard Dirnhofer

Richard Dirnhofer (* 1942 in Bad Hofgastein ) is an Austrian forensic doctor .

Life

Dirnhofer studied medicine and received his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck in 1967 . In 1979 he received his habilitation at the University of Graz . From 1984 to 1991 he was director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Basel (successor to Max Lüdin ; predecessor of Volker Dittmann ). From 1991 until his retirement in 2005 he was director of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern .

Dirnhofer founded the Virtopsy Foundation .

Awards

• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• Honorary membership of the Swiss Society for Forensic Medicine

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Dirnhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Richard Dirnhofer on Google Scholar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the person. In: Public Safety . 2009, pp. 9–10, p. 20 ( online ; PDF file; 348 kB, accessed on November 6, 2016).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} CV of Richard Dirnhofer (PDF), Wikimedia Commons , accessed on November 6, 2016.
3. ^ Institute for Forensic Medicine Basel celebrates its 50th anniversary , website of the canton of Basel-Stadt, January 14, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2016.
4. ↑ Ambrose J. Huang: The Virtopsy Approach: 3D Optical and Radiological Scanning and Reconstruction in Forensic Medicine. In: Radiology. Vol. 257, H. 2, November 2010, pp. 333 f., DOI: 10.1148 / radiol.102538 .