Richard Rost

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Richard Ernst Rost ( February 4, 1940 , † December 26,  1998 ) was a German sports physician and university professor .

Life

Rost went to school in Würzburg and passed his Abitur in 1958 . He completed his medical studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Free University of Berlin in 1964. In 1965, Rost presented his doctoral thesis in Würzburg (title: "Form problems of densitometric curves") and then worked for Ernst Wollheim as a scientific assistant at the Medical University Clinic in Würzburg. From 1973 Rost worked at the Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine at the German Sport University Cologne in the field of cardiology. He played a decisive role in the development of the “Cologne Model”, which included physical exercise and sport in the rehabilitation of people with heart disease and was later recommended by the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

In 1977 Rost completed his habilitation , in 1978 he took up a professorship at the Technical University of Dortmund , but also remained active in sports medicine at the sports university . In 1979 he returned to Cologne and in 1981 went again to the TU Dortmund, where a chair for sports medicine had meanwhile been established. From 1990 onwards, Rost worked again at the Sport University in Cologne and, as Wildor Hollmann's successor, took up the position of head of the Institute for Circulatory Research and Sports Medicine. Among other things, he worked on the further development of the "Cologne Model".

For many years, Rost was involved in the work of the German Association of Sports Physicians as chairman of the department for rehabilitation and disabled sports . He was also a member of the board of the German Society for Prevention and, as a representative of sports medicine, sat on the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association. Rost was an honorary member of the Chilean and Colombian sports medicine associations.

In his scientific work, Rost dealt, among other things, with the influence of physical stress on the heart, the athlete's heart, sports injuries,

He published the "Textbook of Sports Medicine", which was published in further editions after his death. In 1987 his work "Cardiology in Sport" came out, with "Sports and movement therapy for internal diseases" he published another textbook, which was aimed at sports teachers, exercise instructors, physiotherapists and sports doctors. In 1994 his book “Sport und Gesundheit” came out, and in 1984 he published “Herz und Sport. A determination of the position of modern sports cardiology ”.

Rust died of cancer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Rost: Form problems of densitometric curves . 1964 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c https://www.germanjournalsportsmedicine.com/fileadmin/content/archiv1999/Heft01/1999_01_PERSONALIA.pdf
  3. ↑ Lars Peterson: Injuries in Sports: Handbook of Sports Injuries and Sports Damage for Athletes, Exercise Managers and Doctors . 2. completely rework. Aufl., Nachdr. 1998. Deutscher Ärzte-Verl., 1998, ISBN 978-3-7691-0135-5 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  4. ↑ https://katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/Record/0-31685784X
  5. ↑ https://katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/Record/0-024917206
  6. ^ Richard Rost: Sports and exercise therapy for internal diseases: textbook for sports teachers, trainers, physiotherapists and sports doctors . 2., ext. Ed. Dt. Doctors-Verl., 1995, ISBN 978-3-7691-0319-9 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  7. ^ Richard Rost: Sport and health: healthy through sport; healthy despite exercise . Springer, 1994, ISBN 978-3-540-57602-0 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Richard Rost: Heart and Sport: A Position Determination of Modern Sports Cardiology (=  Contributions to Sports Medicine, 22 ). Perimed Fachbuch-Verl.-Ges., 1984, ISBN 978-3-88429-181-8 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Richard Rost. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rost, Richard Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1998