Richard Toellner

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Richard Toellner (born January 2, 1930 in Werther (Westphalia) ; † January 2, 2019 in the Amelungsborn Monastery ) was a German medical historian .

Life

Toellner studied medicine , Protestant theology and history in Mainz , Tübingen and Rome. From 1971 to 1974 he was director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin , then from 1974 to 1995 director of the Institute for Theory and History of Medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1983 he was also a co-founder and until 1988 a member of the board of the working group of medical ethics commissions in the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1988 to 1998 chairman of the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of Münster and the State Medical Association of Westphalia-Lippe . His academic students and staff include Wolfgang U. Eckart and Nelly Tsouyopoulos . From 1987 Toellner was a member of the Leopoldina . Richard Toellner was co-author of the medical dictionary edited by Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann , the third edition of which appeared in 2006. He also wrote a biography of Albrecht von Haller .

Toellner's main areas of work were the history of medicine as a science in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the 19th century and the Third Reich . He also dealt particularly intensively with questions of medical ethics .

Toellner lived in Negenborn . He died in early January 2019 on his 89th birthday. The nursing scientist Ulrike Toellner-Bauer (1959–2012) was his daughter.

Publications (selection)

As an author:

  • Carl Christian von Klein (1772-1825). A trailblazer in scientific surgery in Württemberg , G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1965 (Medicine in History and Culture, Volume 7).
  • Albrecht von Haller. On the unity in the thinking of the last universal scholar, Steiner, Wiesbaden 1971 (Sudhoffs Archive, Supplement 10).
  • The reevaluation of pain in the 17th century. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 6, H. 1, 1971, pp. 36-44 ( JSTOR 25803311 ).
  • The controversy between Descartes and Harvey Regarding the Nature of Cardiac Motions. 1972.
  • The role of the alcoholic drink in the history of medicine. 1977.
  • The question of the beginning and end of human life in medicine yesterday and today. 1980.
  • Boundary conditions for Schelling's conception of medicine as a science. 1981.
  • "Renata dissectionis ars". Vesal's position on Galen in its scientific-historical requirements and consequences. In: August Buck (ed.): The reception of antiquity. On the problem of continuity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Hauswedell, Hamburg 1981, pp. 85-95.
  • On the concept of authority in Renaissance medicine. In: Rudolf Schmitz , Gundolf Keil (ed.): Humanism and Medicine (= German Research Foundation: Communications from the Commission for Humanism Research. Volume 11). Acta humaniora, Weinheim / Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-527-17011-1 , pp. 159-180.
  • The medical faculties under the influence of the Reformation. In: August Buck (ed.): Renaissance, Reformation: opposites and similarities. Lectures. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02476-3 .
  • Doctors in the Third Reich. In: Johanna Bleker , Norbert Jachertz (ed.): Medicine in the Third Reich. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7691-0262-2 , pp. 11-24.
  • The responsibility of medical knowledge, the responsibility of medical action . In: Hans-Peter Müller (Ed.): Knowledge as Responsibility. Ethical consequences of recognizing , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 35–52, ISBN 3-17-010962-6 .
  • The doctor as a scholar: Leonhard (1574-1636) and Johannes Laurentius Bausch (1605-1665) and their library . In: Yearbook Kirchliches Buch- und Bibliothekwesen, Volume 2 (2001), pp. 13–26.
  • Borderline cases. Science and politics: "Does science manipulate politics or does politics instrumentalize science?" . In: Hans-Joachim Martin (Ed.): At the end (-) the ethics? Justification and communication issues of contemporary ethics, Lit, Münster 2002 (Ethics in Practice. Controversies, Volume 5), pp. 14–22, ISBN 978-3-8258-5132-3 .
  • Symposium 20 years of the Münster ethics committee, 15 years of the working group of medical ethics committees. Experiences, problems, perspectives. Lit, Berlin 2003
  • Medical history as an educational science. Contributions and speeches on the history, theory and ethics of medicine from 16. – 21. Century. Lit, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-12813-3 .

As editor:

  • Enlightenment and Humanism , Schneider, Heidelberg 1980 (Wolfenbüttel Studies for Enlightenment, Volume 6), ISBN 3-7953-0722-8 .
  • History, diagnosis and therapy. Karl Eduard Rothschuh on his 75th birthday , Burgverlag, Tecklenburg 1983 (Münstersche Contributions to the History and Theory of Medicine, Volume 20), ISBN 3-922506-06-2 .
  • Georg Bartisch von Königsbrück : Eye service. Reprint of the first comprehensive German-speaking ophthalmology from 1583 with an accompanying booklet by Georg Bartisch (1535–1606). Citizen, oculist, incision and surgeon in Dresden and his work "Ophthalmodouleia that is eye service". Edition "libri rari" Th. Schäfer, Hanover 1983, ISBN 3-88746-071-5 .
  • Disease origination concepts. Lectures , Burgverlag, Tecklenburg 1984 (Münstersche Contributions to the History and Theory of Medicine, Volume 22), ISBN 3-922506-09-7 .
  • Illustrated history of medicine. (Jean-Charles Sournia, Jacques Poulet, Marcel Martiny: Histoire de la médicine, de la pharmacie, de l'art dentaire et de l'art vétérinaire. Ed. By Albin Michel-Laffont-Tchou and colleagues. 8 volumes. Paris 1977 -1980). German arrangement by Richard Toellner with the collaboration of Wolfgang Eckart , Nelly Tsouyopoulos , Axel Hinrich Murken and Peter Hucklenbroich. 9 volumes, Andreas & Andreas, Salzburg 1980–1982; also as a special edition in 6 volumes, ibid. 1986.
  • The ethics committee in medicine. Problem history, task definition, working method, legal status and organizational forms of medical ethics commissions, Fischer, Stuttgart 1990 (medical ethics, volume 1), ISBN 3-437-11291-0 .
  • Organ transplantation - contributions to ethical and legal questions , G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1991 (medical ethics, volume 3), ISBN 3-437-11404-2 .
  • Leprosy: yesterday and today. 15 scientific essays on the past and present of a human plague, Regensberg, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-7923-0631-X .
  • Unity of science. Against the separation of nature and spirit, art and science , Westdt. Verlag, Opladen 1993, ISBN 3-531-12472-2 .
  • Knowledge - action - ethics. Structures of medical action and the like their ethical relevance , G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1995 (medical ethics, volume 6), ISBN 3-437-11701-7 .
  • History and Ethics in Medicine. On the difficulties of a cooperation, G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1997 (medical ethics, volume 10), ISBN 3-437-21326-1 .
  • The birth of a gentle medicine. The Francke Foundations in Halle as a meeting place for medicine and Pietism in the early 18th century , publisher of the Francke Foundations in Halle, Halle / S. 2004, ISBN 3-931479-56-0 .
  • The foundation of the Leopoldina - Academia Naturae Curiosorum - in a historical context. Johann Laurentius Bausch on his 400th birthday, Wiss. Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2008 (Acta Historica Leopoldina, Volume 49), ISBN 978-3-8047-2471-6 .

To the biography

  • Obituary for Richard Toellner . In: Cistercienser Chronik 126 (2019), pp. 177f.
  • Friedrich Niewöhner / Richard Schaeffler (eds.): Immortality, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999 (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, Volume 86), ISBN 978-3-447-04168-3 (Festschrift for Richard Toellner).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joerg Hasford: Founding member Prof. Dr. med. Richard Toellner has died. Website of the Working Group of Medical Ethics Commissions in the Federal Republic of Germany V., accessed on January 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ member entry of Richard Toellner at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 22 July 2016th
  3. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Ed.): Doctors Lexicon. From antiquity to the present. Beck, Munich 1995; 2nd edition: Springer, Berlin 2001; 3rd edition: Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-29584-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Toellner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Werther (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2019