Walter Artelt

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Walter Artelt (born July 23, 1906 in Warmbrunn , † January 26, 1976 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German doctor , dentist and medical historian .

Life

Walter Artelt received his doctorate in 1929. As a student of Paul Diepgen and Max Wellmann in Berlin , Artelt was among other things head of the collection of the Research Institute for the History of Dentistry until 1938 . He took over the office of medical historian as the successor to the founder, the Jewish medical historian Curt Proskauer . From 1938 until his retirement in 1971 he was head of the Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Artelt joined the NSDAP in 1941 . At the University of Frankfurt Artelt was an associate professor from 1942 and associate professor from 1952. Professor and from 1958 full professor and rector 1962/63.

From 1950 to 1955 Artelt was chairman of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology . In 1952 Artelt was elected to the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Together with Heinz Goerke , Edith Heischkel and Gunter Mann (1924–1992) Artelt was editor of the medical historical journal .

The medical historian Edith Heischkel-Artelt was his wife. After the couple, Prof. Dr. Walter Artelt and Prof. Dr. Edith Heischkel – Artelt – Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

  • Doctor and physical exercise in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In: Clinical weekly. 10, 1931, pp. 846-849 and 2092-2096.
  • Studies on the history of the terms "remedy" and "poison". Primeval times - Homer - Corpus hippocraticum. (Medical habilitation thesis, Berlin 1935) Leipzig 1937 (= studies on the history of medicine. Volume 23); Reprint Darmstadt 1968.
  • Theophrastus Paracelsus, 1493-1541. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of death. Edited and designed by Fritz Jaeger with the assistance of Walter Artelt [et al.]. Mora, Salzburg 1941.
  • Introduction to medical history. Their nature, their way of working and their tools. 1949.
  • as publisher: Index on the history of medicine, science and technology. 1953.
  • The patron saints of doctors and pharmacists Kosmas and Damian. Sequence of images I to XII. Merck, Darmstadt 1954.
  • Ernst Georg Kurz 1859–1937. [ Lecture given on October 1, 1963 at the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology e. V. in Schaffhausen and dedicated to my teacher Paul Diepgen on his upcoming 85th birthday on November 24, 1963. ] Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the University, Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • as ed. with Walter Rüegg ): The Doctor and the Sick in 19th Century Society Lectures at a symposium from 1st to 3rd April 1963 in Frankfurt am Main (= studies on the history of medicine in the nineteenth century. Volume 1). Stuttgart 1967.
  • Mesmerism in Berlin (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1965, No. 6).
  • as publisher: Urban, apartment and clothing hygiene of the 19th century in Germany. Lectures at a symposium from 17. – 18. June 1967 in Frankfurt am Main. Enke, Stuttgart 1969 (= studies on the history of medicine in the nineteenth century. Volume 3).
  • August de Bary and the history of medicine. 1974.

literature

  • Hans-Heinz Eulner u. a. (Ed.): Medical history in our time. Festival ceremony for Edith Heischkel-Artelt and Walter Artelt on their 65th birthday. Stuttgart: Enke 1971, ISBN 3-432-01698-0 , with bibliography E. Heischkel-Artelt a. W. Artelt (pp. 457-477).
  • Hans Sckommodau: Obituaries for Erhard Lommatzsch, Walter Artelt, Herbert O'Daniel, Franz Beyerle, Franz Böhm, Karl Küpfmüller, Gerhard Kleiner, Ernst Langlotz, Paul Royen. ( Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 17, 2) Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03392-0 .
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 19.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Artelt: The history of the anatomy of the jaw and teeth up to the end of antiquity. Medical dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1929 (also printed in: Janus 33, 1929, pp. 199–212, 281–300 and 310–336).
  2. ↑ Gisela Tascher: Status of research for a chronicle on the history of the "Proskauer / Witt Collection", the "German Dental Library" and the "Research Institute for the History of Dentistry" (PDF) , German Dental Journal , Deutscher Ärzteverlag , 2012; 67 (3). Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dominik Groß : The rise and fall of the 'German Dental Library' and the 'Research Center for the History of Dentistry'. The failure of an institution steeped in tradition and its consequences. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 21, 2002, pp. 373–388; here: pp. 376–378.
  4. ↑ W. Artelt, H. Goerke, E. Heischkel, G. Mann (eds.): Medizinhistorisches Journal. Georg Olms, Hildesheim / New York (Volume 9, 1974).
personal data
SURNAME Artelt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Warmbrunn
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1976
Place of death Königstein im Taunus