Rudolf Fritz Weiss

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Rudolf Fritz Weiss (born July 28, 1895 in Berlin ; † November 27, 1991 in Aitrach ) was a German specialist in internal medicine and professor of phytotherapy . He is considered the founder of scientific herbal medicine.

Life

Rudolf Fritz Weiss was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1895. During the First World War he was a volunteer nurse for the Red Cross , which made him want to study human medicine at the University of Berlin. At the same time, he also took botany and was licensed as a doctor in 1922. He wrote dissertations in medicine and botany, but in order to save printing costs during the inflationary period, only the medical one was accepted as such. The botanical work on the gypsum flora in the southern Harz was published in the Botanisches Centralblatt . This was followed by specialist training in internal medicine at the Charité . Then he was head of a sanatorium in the Harz Mountains, where he could work with medicinal plants. From 1931 he was a lecturer in scientific herbal medicine (phytotherapy) at the Academy for Medical Training in Berlin. The lectures were collected in 1944 and published in one volume as Die Pflanzenheilkunde in der Ärztlichen Praxis . During the Second World War , Weiss was a reserve medical officer in reserve hospital 124 in the Berlin-Britz hospital, where he founded a rehabilitation department and headed internal medicine. He fell into a Russian prisoner of war, from which he was only released in 1952. He settled in Hanover as a doctor for internal medicine. After giving up his practice, he moved to the community of Aitrach (Vogelherd district) to continue research there. In 1983 he became a lecturer and 1985 professor at the University of Tübingen. The standard textbook on phytotherapy developed from his lectures , which is still continued today under Volker Fintelmann . It was u. a. Translated into Danish, English and Japanese. Weiss supervised the work until the 6th edition in 1985.

From 1959 to 1961 he was the first chairman of the Central Association of Doctors for Naturopathic Treatment and headed the Association's Phytotherapy Working Group for over 30 years. He was a founding member of the Society for Phytotherapy (1971) and also founding editor of the Journal for Phytotherapy (1980). From 1978 to 1990 he was a permanent member of Commission E . In 1984, at the age of 88, he took on a teaching position in Tübingen on the subject of "Modern Phytotherapy in Practice".

Weiss published a total of more than 100 original works and monographs, including the Great Kneipp Book and the continuation of the Great Herbal Book by Pastor Künzle .

Rudolf Fritz Weiss died on November 27, 1991 in Aitrach at the age of 96 .

Honors

In 1975 Weiss was awarded the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg , and in 1985 Prime Minister Lothar Späth appointed him honorary professor.

In 1987 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services as a camp doctor while Richard von Weizsäcker was a prisoner of war . Weiss had his fellow prisoners u. a. supplied with medicinal plants collected by him. In the camp near Küstrin he even gave lectures on herbal medicine on the instructions of the Russians. He also received the Hufeland Medal , the Huneke Medal and other awards. The municipality of Aitrach made him an honorary citizen.

Aftermath

Weiss developed phytotherapy from an empirical medicine to a systematic and thus teachable and learnable science. His work was u. a. continued by Volker Fintelmann and Heinz Schilcher ( Guide to Phytotherapy ). Even Max Wichtl builds in his standard work Teedrogen and herbal products on on the lifetime production of white.

The Society for Phytotherapy awarded him the Rudolf Fritz Weiss Prize, today's Phytotherapy Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the influence of syphilis on the development and course of tuberculosis. Berlin 1922. (Dissertation)
  • The thyroid treatment for obesity. Berlin 1926.
  • Constitutional arterial hypertension. Fischer's medical bookstore, Berlin 1927.
  • Liver Cookbook: Instructions and recipes for the practical implementation of the liver diet for blood diseases. Verlag der Ärztliche Rundschau O. Gmelin, Munich 1928.
  • Herbal Medicine in Medical Practice: Lectures at the Berlin Academy for Medical Training. Hippocrates, Stuttgart 1944.
  • Phytotherapy textbook. 1st edition, under the title Herbal Medicine in Medical Practice , 1944; Hippocrates, Stuttgart 1960.
  • Modern herbal medicine: News about medicinal plants and their use. Sanitas-Verlag, Bad Wörishofen 1966.
  • as editor: Johann Künzle: The great herbal medicine book: Advice for healthy and sick days. Walter-Verlag, Olten 1974. ISBN 3-530-49204-3
  • Poems on the way. Gulden-Verlag, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-925509-00-3
  • with Volker Fintelmann (arr.): Textbook of Phytotherapy. Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-7773-1117-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Rudolf Fritz Weiss: Every now and then some hawthorn. In: Die Zeit , September 7, 1985
  2. ↑ a b c d old masters of phytotherapy. In: Journal of Phytotherapy , Issue 2, 1992
  3. ↑ Doctors' Journal for Naturopathic Treatment 46, 2 (2005) ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zaen.de
  4. ↑ a b c Heinz Schilcher : Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Fritz Weiss in medical journal for naturopathic treatment , March 1992. P. 185f.
  5. ^ Definition of phytotherapy on the GPT homepage
  6. ↑ a b Volker Fintelmann: Textbook Phytotherapy. Hippokrates, Stuttgart 2009. S. VI / VII. ISBN 3-8304-5418-X
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Rudolf Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of phytotherapy
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1991
Place of death Aitrach