Ursula Weisser

Ursula Weisser (born January 12, 1948 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German medical historian . Her research is particularly dedicated to the medicine of the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages . Ursula Weisser also presented publications on medicine in Hamburg .

Life

From 1967 to 1974 Ursula Weisser studied the history of natural sciences , Islamic studies , oriental philology and Indo-European linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1969 to 1972 she was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences in the research project History of Arabic Literature , which was headed by Fuat Sezgin . From 1972 to 1974 Ursula Weisser received a graduate scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) . In 1974 herDoctorate to Dr. phil. nat.

From 1975 to 1981 Ursula Weisser worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . 1981 habilitated it for the History of Medicine with a record of conviction ideas in medicine of the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages. Ursula Weisser was appointed Academic Senior Councilor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität , and she was acting head of the Institute for the History of Medicine there in the winter semester 1981/82. From 1981 to 1984 she took over the lectureship during the vacancy of the Erlangen chair for the history of medicine. From 1982 to 1984 Ursula Weisser was a fellow of the Heisenberg Program of the DFG.

Between 1984 and 1987 she worked as a private lecturer at the Medical History Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

In 1987 Ursula Weisser took up the post of director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . She held this position until her retirement in 2000.

Editing

Ursula Weisser was co-editor of the series Hamburg Studies on the History of Medicine.

Publications (selection)

Ibn Sina and the Medicine of the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages - Old and New Judgments and Prejudices. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 18, 1983, pp. 283-305.
Conception, Heredity, and Prenatal Development in Medicine of the Arab-Islamic Middle Ages. Erlangen 1983.

Web links

Literature by and about Ursula Weisser in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Ursula Weisser in the bibliographic database WorldCat , accessed on July 16, 2016.
Ursula Weisser in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on June 18, 2017)
Hamburg Studies on the History of Medicine , accessed on July 16, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ The biographical information could be found on the website of the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf until 2015: IGEM: Staff: Weisser ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Weisser, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwäbisch Hall

[1] The biographical information could be found on the website of the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf until 2015: IGEM: Staff: Weisser ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).