Valeriu Lucian Bologa

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Valeriu Bologa 1938

Valeriu Lucian Bologa (born November 26, 1892 in Kronstadt , † October 30, 1971 in Cluj ) was a Transylvanian doctor, natural scientist, medical historian and president of the World Association of Medical History.

Life

Valeriu Lucian Bologa was born as the son of the branch manager of the Sibiu bank "Albina" in Kronstadt, Valeriu P. Bologa (1853–1899). The father died when Valeriu Lucian Bologa was six years old. Bologa attended German elementary school and the first class of the Honterus grammar school in Kronstadt. He then went to Paris and Vienna with his mother. In 1908 Bologa returned to Kronstadt and was a student at the Hungarian grammar school and then at the Romanian Andrei-Șaguna-Lyceum . In 1911, Bologa passed the school leaving examination. He then studied medicine in Jena with Ernst Haeckel, among others . At the beginning of the First World War, Bologa began studying medicine in Jena. However, he was drafted into the military in September 1914. In the weeks off duty he continued his medical studies. After the war, Bologa moved to Cluj and was preparator at the Histological Institute at the Medical College. Bologa received his doctorate in medicine on December 20, 1923. During stays in his hometown of Kronstadt, Bologa devoted himself to the history of medicine and read the works of the medical historian Eduard Gusbeth from Klausenburg . Bologa's habilitation thesis in 1927 was entitled “Contributions to the history of medicine in Transylvania.” He was made professor for the history of medicine at the University of Cluj-Napoca. Bologa received invitations to Kronstadt several times, and in 1934 gave a lecture in the cultural association on "Kronstadt's contribution to the development of Romanian medicine" and on the topic of "The beginnings of medical science among the Romanians". In 1934 he gave the lecture “The History of Medicine and the History of Science” to German doctors in the city. Bologa was President of the World Federation of Medical History between 1949 and 1971. He also studied the history of syphilis. In 1957, the Medical History Section of the “Kronstadt Branch of the Union of Romanian Medical Associations” organized a cycle of nine lectures intended for the general public. Bologa opened this series with the lecture " Magicians and faith healers of all times." On July 15, 1971, Bologa gave his last lecture in Kronstadt on "the beginnings of the Romanian medical school in Cluj." He died a few months later in Cluj.

He was particularly interested in the Transylvanian ophthalmologist and writer Ioan Piuariu-Molnar (1749–1815).

Publications (selection)

  • Ernst Haeckel , in: Gazeta Transilvaniei , March 14, 1914, on the 80th birthday of Ernst Haeckel.
  • Contributions to the medical history of Transylvania , post-doctoral thesis 1927.
  • Contribuțiuni la istoria medicinei di Ardeal. Cluj 1927.
  • Inceputurile literaturii balneologice ardelene , in: Darea de Seamă asupra Adunării Generale extraordinare a Societăţii de Hidrologie şi Climatologie medicale din România, Inst. De Balneologie, Cluj 1934, pp. 5–10.
  • Universitas litterarum and the history of science with special consideration of the conditions in Romania , Ebering Berlin 1935.
  • Doctors and health care among the Transylvanian Saxons in the 18th and early 19th centuries , Publishing House of the Academy of the Romanian People's Republic, Bucharest 1964.
  • Gerhard Freiherr van Swieten , speech about the health of the aged (Vienna 1778) , translated into German and introduced biographically by Hugo Glaser, with explanations by Johannes Haußleiter , Leipzig Barth 1964, Sudhoff's classics of medicine.
  • Heinrich A. Gins , illness against death, fate of the smallpox vaccination, in: German literary newspaper for criticism of international science , Akademie Verlag Berlin, vol. 86 (1965), no. 1, sp. 63–65.
  • Heinrich Schipperges , living medicine, by great doctors and philosophers from three millennia , Walter Freiburg / B. 1962, in: German literary newspaper for criticism of international science, Akademie Verlag Berlin, vol. 86 (1965), h. 8–9, col. 807–809.
  • Karl Eduard Rothschuh , Principles of Medicine, A Guide to Medicine , Urban & Schwarzenberg Munich, Berlin 1965, in: German literary newspaper for criticism of international science , Akad. Verlag Berlin, vol. 88 (1967) H. 11, Sp 1026– 1030.
  • with Manna Copony: Rudolf Virchow as a guest in my grandfather's house , Medizinhistorisches Journal, 5 (1970), pp. 299–303.

literature

  • GHR von Koenigswald: Die Geschichte des Menschen , Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg 1960. S. 4.
  • Paul Diepgen : History of Medicine , Vol. II, Part II, Berlin 1955, p. 27.
  • Arnold Huttmann with Emil I. Bologa and Radu Puşcariu: Valeriu Lucian Bologa and the city of Kronstadt , in: Huttmann: Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, pp. 391–398.

Honor

  • On the occasion of his 70th and 75th birthday, the medical historians of Kronstadt dedicated two volumes to Bologa with 14 and 10 papers respectively, which included previously unpublished articles on the history of medicine.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansgeorg von Killyen: Transylvania Doctors in the First World War , in: Harald Heppner (Ed.): Umbruch mit Schlachtenlärm. Transylvania and the First World War , Böhlau Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017, pp. 273–290, on Valeri L. Bologa, p. 281.
  2. ^ Maria Fiebrandt: Selection for the settler society. The inclusion of ethnic Germans in the Nazi genetic health policy in the context of resettlements 1939–1945 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 2014, p. 576.
  3. ↑ Arnold Huttmann 2000: 397th
personal data
SURNAME Bologa, Valeriu Lucian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bologa, Lucian Valeriu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1971
Place of death Cluj-Napoca