Wilhelm Doerr

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Wilhelm Georg Doerr (born August 25, 1914 in Langen (Hesse) ; † May 21, 1996 in Heidelberg ) was a German pathologist and university professor.

life and work

Doerr began to study medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University and became a member of the Heidelberg Wingolf . After a semester at the Philipps University of Marburg , he was awarded a summa cum laude Dr. med. PhD. During the Second World War he had to do medical military service in Poland, France and Russia and worked in a field prosecution. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg. In 1953 Wilhelm Doerr was appointed to the chair for general pathology and pathological anatomy at the Free University of Berlin . In 1956 he followed the call of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel to its chair for pathology. In 1963 he moved to the home university of Heidelberg. He declined calls to Marburg, Freiburg, Ulm and Vienna. In 1983 he retired .

After he had made a significant contribution to the understanding of the ontogenesis of heart defects in both his dissertation and his habilitation (see Virchow's archive 301 (1938), 668ff and 310 (1943), 304ff), diseases of the heart muscle ( myocarditis , myocardial infarction ) remained. Focus of his research work. In addition, he analyzed the pathology ("gaits") of arteriosclerosis, pancreatitis and other diseases. He dealt with anthropology , theoretical pathology, and terms such as health and disease . Doerr has written and edited a number of textbooks, handbooks and monographs in his and neighboring fields, including: a. a more than 20-volume standard work on special pathology ( special pathological anatomy together with Gerhard Seifert and Erwin Uehlinger at Springer, Heidelberg). For two decades from 1966 he was one of the editors of Virchow's archive .

As dean of the medical faculty and as a member of the general assembly for the restructuring of Heidelberg University , Doerr gave important impulses. He introduced a modern department system for his own institute. In the same way he made a contribution to founding the German Cancer Research Center and the medical faculties in Lübeck, Ulm and Mannheim. From 1972 to 1974 he was President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

One of Wilhelm Doerr's students is the social medicine specialist and medical philosopher Wolfgang Jacob (1919–1994).

Editorships

  • Wilhelm Doerr u. a. Special pathological anatomy , Springer Verlag
  • Doerr, Wilhelm (Ed.): Semper apertus. Six hundred years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1386–1986. Festschrift in six volumes, Springer Berlin. ISBN 978-3-540-15425-9 .
  • Doerr, Wilhelm (Ed.): In memoriam Fritz Linder . Academic commemoration for Fritz Linder (1912–1994) on February 17, 1995 in the Alte Aula of Heidelberg University, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, 1995.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HF Otto: In honor of Wilhelm Doerr on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Virchows Archiv 425 (1994), p. 1, doi: 10.1007 / BF00193943
  2. ↑ Personal data (PDF, 149 kB) in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt from June 21, 1996
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Two more cases of cardiac deformities. A contribution to Spitzer's phylogenetic theory. 1. Transposition d. Aorta with pulmonary stenosis. 2. Transposition of the great arteries with the formation of an apparent third verticle .
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About malformations of the human heart, with special consideration of the globe and trunk .
  5. ↑ Heinz Schott : Memories of my doctoral supervisor Wolfgang Jacob (1919–1994). In: Heinz Schott's Unpublished Writings & Miscellanea. A Heinz Schott Blog , February 11, 2020 Digitized
  6. ^ Honorary members of the University of Lübeck
  7. ^ Member entry by Wilhelm Doerr at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 1, 2012.
  8. ^ Winner of the Paracelsus Medal (bundesaerztekammer.de); accessed on May 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ Personalia (PDF, 202 kB) in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt from December 23, 1991
  10. ↑ Cothenius Medal (leopoldina.org)
personal data
SURNAME Doerr, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doerr, Wilhelm Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German professor for pathology in West Berlin, Kiel and Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Langen (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1996
Place of death Heidelberg