Rudolf Schoen (physician)

Rudolf Schoen (born March 31, 1892 in Kaiserslautern , † March 11, 1979 in Göttingen ) was a German professor for internal medicine at the University of Göttingen . He was the founding rector of the Hannover Medical School .

Life

Schoen studied medicine in Heidelberg, Munich and Strasbourg. He then worked at the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich with Maximilian Borst and assistant to Ernst von Romberg . In 1920 he received his doctorate and then went to the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Königsberg. In 1925 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg with Paul Morawitz . In 1926 he became senior physician at the Medical Clinic of the University of Leipzig , in 1929 an associate professor and in 1931 a full professor at the Leipzig Medical Polyclinic. From 1939 he was a full professor at the Medical Clinic of the University of Göttingen , where he was dean of the medical faculty in 1945 and rector of the university from 1959 until the winter semester 1960/61. In 1961 he retired.

As early as 1954 he tried to reform medical training, which was laid down in a memorandum with H. Schäfer, and as a member of the Clinical Commission of the Science Council, he was involved in the planning of new medical universities in Germany. In 1961 he became a member of the founding committee of the MHH and in 1965 its first rector.

He dealt in particular with rheumatology and arthritis , pathophysiology of breathing, pathology of blood diseases. In 1949 he was significantly involved in the founding of the German Society for Rheumatology and was its president for a long time and later honorary president.

He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1959 . In 1964 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit and in 1967 the Great Order of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1969 he received the Paracelsus Medal and in 1971 the Lower Saxony State Medal . In 1968 he received an honorary doctorate from the MHH.

The Rudolf Schoen Prize of the German Society for Rheumatology and the Rudolf Schoen Prize of the TUI Foundation for young scientists at the MHH in Hanover are named in his honor .

Fonts

• with W. Tischendorf: Clinical Pathology of Blood Diseases , Thieme, Stuttgart 1950.
• with Heinrich U. Anton: Biochemical findings in the differential diagnosis of internal diseases , Thieme, Stuttgart 1960.
• Editor: Clinic for Rheumatic Diseases , Springer, Berlin 1970.
• Polyarthritis Chronica Progressiva , Steinkopff 1969.
• Editor: Internal Medicine , Part 1,2, Wiesbaden, Dieterich 1948 (Natural Research and Medicine in Germany 1939–1946, also in English, FIAT Review of German Science).
• Medical training and education to become a doctor , Banaschewski, Graefelfing ( Munich) 1974, DNB 750065583 (= The doctor's voice ).

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 9, pp. 81f.
• Anikó Szabó: eviction, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism, with biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors: University of Göttingen - TH Braunschweig - TH Hannover - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Wallstein , Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 (= publications of the working group History of Lower Saxony (after 1945), Volume 15, also dissertation at the University of Hanover 1998).
• Hugo Thielen : SCHOEN, Rudolf. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 321; online through google books
• Hugo Thielen: Schoen, Rudolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 548.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Schoen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography after Böttcher (Ed.) Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , Hannover 2000, and footnote p. 163 in Anikó Szabó Expulsion, Return, Reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism , Wallstein Verlag, 2000
2. ↑ Rudolf Schoen Prize, German Society for Rheumatology ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.