Werner Friedrich Kümmel

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Werner Friedrich Kümmel (* 1936 in Zurich ) is a German medical historian.

Life

Werner Friedrich Kümmel is the oldest son of the theologian Werner Georg Kümmel and grew up in Zurich, Mainz and Marburg. He studied history, musicology, classical philology and philosophy in Marburg , Kiel and Göttingen (1963 state examination for higher teaching qualifications). After receiving his doctorate in 1966 at the Philipps University of Marburg as Dr. phil. in the subject Modern History, he was from 1966 to 1969 Fellow of the DFG . From 1970 to 1973 he was an assistant at the Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the Goethe University . After his habilitation in 1973 for the history of medicine in Frankfurt am Main and appointment as professor, he was professor at the Medical History Institute of the University of Mainz from 1976 to 1985 . From 1986 to 1988 he headed the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Robert Bosch Foundation . From October 1988 to 2004 he was head of the Medical History Institute in Mainz . In 2004 an academic commemorative publication was dedicated to him.

His research focuses on the edition of Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring's diaries , the importance of the doctor for the relationship between Christians and Jews in the late Middle Ages and early modern times, Alexander von Humboldt and yellow fever and medical historians in the Third Reich.

In 1998, Werner Friedrich Kümmel was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the History of Science and Medicine section .

Fonts (selection)

  • History and music history. The music of the modern age in the historiography and understanding of history of the German cultural area from the Enlightenment to JG Droysen and Jacob Burckhardt . Marburg 1967, OCLC 876654412 .
  • Music and medicine. Their interrelationships in theory and practice from 800 to 1800 . Munich 1977, ISBN 3-495-49602-5 .
  • Medical terminology course. Compact textbook . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7945-1935-3 .
  • Medicine and National Socialism . Istanbul 2018, ISBN 978-605-82308-3-5 .

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Alfons Labisch and Norbert Paul (eds.): Historizität. Experience and Action - History and Medicine . Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08507-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Kümmel, Werner Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kümmel, Werner F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich