Udo Benzenhöfer

Udo Benzenhöfer (* 1957 in Pforzheim ) is a German medical historian , doctor, university professor and non-fiction author .

biography

After the end of his school career, Benzenhöfer studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg from 1976 to 1983 , where he received his doctorate in 1983 with a medical history topic. med. received his doctorate . At the same time, he began studying German and philosophy in Heidelberg in 1981. Because of his community service time, which he performed as a doctor, he had to study interrupt the meantime, finishing his second degree in 1988. In Heidelberg he was in 1988 with a alchemical-medical dissertation Dr. phil. PhD. He then got a job as an assistant at the Department of Medical History at the Medical University of Hanover , where he qualified as a professor for the history of medicine in 1991 and was active as a private lecturer and acting director of the history of medicine department. In 1996 he was appointed associate professor at the Hannover Medical School. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a research assistant at the Medical History Institute of the University of Bonn . At the beginning of October 2004 he was appointed full professor for the history and ethics of medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he is director of the Senckenberg Institute for the history and ethics of medicine.

His main research interests are Paracelsus , medicine under National Socialism , the history and ethics of " euthanasia " and euthanasia as well as the history of Frankfurt university medicine .

literature

• Klaus Gahl, Peter Achilles, Rainer-ME Jacobi (eds.): Mutuality. Basic questions of medical ethics. Contributions to medical anthropology. (= Contributions to medical anthropology. Volume 5). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3325-4 . (Portrait of the author, p. 503)

Fonts

• Medicine and Literature - James Joyce. 1983 (Dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1983).
• Johannes' de Rupescissa "Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum", German. Studies on Alchemia medica from the 15th to 17th centuries with a critical edition of the text (= Heidelberg Studies on Natural History of the Early Modern Age. Vol. 1). Steiner, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 1989 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1988).
• On the social history of psychiatry in the Kingdom of Hanover (1814–1866). Mainz, Aachen 1992.
• The Hanoverian court physician and personal physician Paul Gottlieb Werlhof (1699–1767). Mainz, Aachen 1992, ISBN 3-9257-1474-X .
• Bibliography of the writings on the history of psychiatry in German-speaking countries published between 1975 and 1989. Burgverlag, Tecklenburg 1992.
• Psychiatry and anthropology in the first half of the 19th century. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1993 (habilitation thesis, Hannover Medical School, 1991).
• Directory of medical-historical dissertations from the western occupation zones and from the FRG between 1945 and 1959. Mainz, Aachen 1993.
• Paracelsus. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1997.
• The good death? Euthanasia and euthanasia, past and present. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-42128-8 .
• "Children's departments" and "NS child euthanasia" (= studies on the history of medicine under National Socialism. Vol. 1). GWAB, Wetzlar 2000.
• Jewish doctors in Hanover 1933 to 1945 (= studies on the history of medicine under National Socialism. Vol. 13). GWAB, Wetzlar 2000.
• Studies on the early work of Paracelsus in the field of medicine and natural history. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster 2005.
• On the genesis of the law to prevent hereditary offspring. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster 2006.
• Medical truth - patient truth. Franz Rosenzweig, his illness and his doctors (with special reference to Richard Koch and Viktor von Weizsäcker). Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster 2006.
• "Child and youth euthanasia" in the Reichsgau Sudetenland and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. GWAB, Wetzlar 2006.
• Lecture notes on medical history. GWAB-Verlag, Wetzlar 2007.
• The medical philosopher Viktor von Weizsäcker. An overview of life and work. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007.
• The Leipzig case (alias the "Kind Knauer" case) and the planning of the Nazi "child reuthanasia". Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster 2008.
• The good death? History of euthanasia and euthanasia. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009 ( digitized version ).
• with Monika Birkenfeld: Opposition in the Nazi era. The case of the Frankfurt medical student Arnd von Wedekind (1919–1943). Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2008.
• The history of the founding of the medical faculty in Frankfurt am Main. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2011.
• The little 68th protests of medical students in Frankfurt am Main around 1968; with a contribution by the former Frankfurt AStA chairman Hans-Jürgen Birkholz. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2011.
• The Frankfurt University Medical Center between 1933 and 1945. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2012.
• The municipal hospital in Frankfurt am Main from 1884 until the opening of the university hospital in 1914. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2013.
• The University Medicine in Frankfurt am Main from 1914 to 2014. Kontur, Münster 2014.
• The Dr. Senckenberg Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine in Frankfurt am Main from WS 2004/05 to WS 2014/15. Kontur, Münster 2015.
• with Hanns Ackermann: The number of procedures and sterilizations according to the law for the prevention of hereditary offspring. Kontur, Münster 2015.

Editing

• with Eva Erdmann: "Give you an artless song": Heidelberg poems - an anthology. Rigodon-Verlag, Essen 1985.
• with Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medicine in the feature film of National Socialism. Burgverlag, Tecklenburg 1990.
• with Wilhelm Kühlmann : Medicine and disease experience in the early modern period: Studies on the borderline of literary history and the history of medicine. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992.
• Paracelsus , Wiss. Buchges., Darmstadt 1993.
• Medicine in the fifties feature film. Centaurus-Verlag-Ges., Pfaffenweiler 1993.
• The challenge of ethics in medicine: contributions from the Hannover Medical School. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1994.
• Anthropological medicine and social medicine in Viktor von Weizsäcker's work. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1994.
• with Gisela VomBruch: About the diet for the soul. Laurentius, Hanover 1995.
• Studies on the history and ethics of medicine with a focus on Frankfurt am Main. GWAB-Verlag, Wetzlar 2008.
• Mengele, Hirt, Holfelder, Berner, von Verschuer, Kranz: Frankfurt university doctors of the Nazi era. Klemm & Ölschläger, Münster 2010.
• The Medical Faculty of the University of Frankfurt am Main as reflected in the meeting reports (1914–1941). Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2011.
• Ehrlich, Edinger, Goldstein and others: memorable Frankfurt university doctors. Klemm and Oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Udo Benzenhöfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Benzenhöfer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Gahl, Peter Achilles, Rainer-ME Jacobi (ed.): Mutuality. Basic questions of medical ethics. Contributions to medical anthropology. Würzburg 2008, p. 503.