Rudolf Gross (physician)

Rudolf Wolfgang Johannes Gross (born October 1, 1917 in Stuttgart ; † September 14, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German internist and university professor.

Life

After completing his labor and military service under National Socialist rule, Rudolf Gross studied medicine from 1937 to 1944 ; until the end of the war he was employed as a military doctor. After the end of the war he received his clinical training at the clinic of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with Hans Hermann Bennhold and Hans Erhard Bock , mainly in the fields of hematology and oncology . In 1949 he followed Bock to the University Hospital Marburg . From 1951 to 1952 he worked experimentally with Hans Lettré at the Cancer Research Institute of Heidelberg University Hospital . In 1954 he completed his habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1960 he was appointed adjunct professor . In 1964 received a call to the chair of Internal Medicine I, University of Cologne and became head of the Department of Medicine I at the Medical University Hospital on the Römerberg he worked until 1983 as director.

Gross has published around 700 scientific papers. The textbook “Internal Medicine” originally published by Jahn and later by Gross, Schölmerich and Gerok has become a standard work. Parts of the lecture held also by Gross in Cologne Department of Internal Medicine found their way into the "script" Internal Medicine of Gerd Herold . After his retirement , Gross headed the medical and scientific editorial department of Deutsches Ärzteblatt .

He was President of the German Society for Internal Medicine (1978) and President of the Heilmeyer Society (1979–1990).

Publications (selection)

• with Paul Schölmerich and Wolfgang Gerok (eds.): 1000 memoranda of internal medicine. (= UTB for science / university paperbacks. Volume 522). Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1971, ISBN 3-7945-1282-0 . (4th, completely revised edition, ibid 1989)
• with Paul Schölmerich and Wolfgang Gerok (eds.): Textbook of internal medicine. 5th edition. Stuttgart / New York 1977. (7th edition, ibid. 1988)

honors and awards

• Member of the Leopoldina (since 1973)
• Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 1987)
• Wilhelm-Warner Prize for Cancer Research
• Dr. Salzer Prize for Cancer Research
• Heilmeyer Gold Medal from the Society for Advances in Internal Medicine
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1985)
• Gustav von Bergmann Medal (1999)
• Ernst von Bergmann badge
• Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association
• Rudolf Jürgens Memorial Medal for outstanding services to blood coagulation research

Web links

• Laudation for the award of the Paracelsus Medal in 1988 . In: Dtsch Arztebl. Volume 85, No. 20, 1988, pp. A-1474.
• Rudolf Gross 90 years: Internal medicine advanced. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 104, No. 39, 2007, pp. A-2667 / B-2357 / C-2289.