Wolfgang Gerok
Wolfgang Gerok (born March 27, 1926 in Tübingen ) is a German medic. He is an internist specializing in gastroenterology, hepatology and metabolic diseases.
family
Wolfgang Gerok's father Eduard Gerok was a political scientist and factory director. The mother was a daughter of the Württemberg State President Johannes von Hieber and, in addition to her son Wolfgang Gerok, had three sons and a daughter. Gerok's uncle Walter Hieber was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Technical University in Munich.
Life
Gerok studied medicine at the universities in Tübingen and Freiburg. After completing his studies, he began his scientific training at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and at the Pathological Institute of the University of Tübingen . He completed his clinical training in Zurich, Marburg, Tübingen and Mainz. From 1968 to 1994 he held the chair for internal medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and was the medical director of the department of internal medicine II at the Medical University Clinic Freiburg, which was also headed by Georg Wilhelm Löhr.
From 1987 to 1988 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . From 1987 to 1995 Wolfgang Gerok was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society .
With Paul Schölmerich and Rudolf Gross, he published a textbook on internal medicine .
Gerok played a decisive role in the further development of clinical and scientific hepatology . His main focus was the biochemistry of bile secretion and bile acid metabolism, the regulation of amino acid and protein metabolism in the liver, and the molecular biology of the hepatitis viruses .
Private
Wolfgang Gerok's marriage resulted in two daughters.
literature
- Rudolf Gross , Paul Schölmerich, Wolfgang Gerok (Eds.): 1000 key phrases internal medicine. 4th, completely revised edition. Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1989 (= UTB for science / university paperbacks. Volume 522), ISBN 3-7945-1282-0 , p. IV f. and IX.
Honors
- Theodor Frerichs Prize of the German Society for Internal Medicine (1963)
- Watson Lecture and Watson Prize from the University of Minnesota
- Henle Medal of the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen
- Thannhäuser Medal of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases
- Orden Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
- Cothenius Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina zu Halle (Saale) (member of the Leopoldina since 1980)
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986)
- Great Cross of Merit with Star (1994)
- Lucie Bolte Prize (1999)
- Gustav von Bergmann Medal (2001)
- Gold Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine
- Ludwig Heilmeyer Medal in Gold (2006)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Regensburg
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Gerok in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Med Klin 2001: Awarding of the Gustav von Bergmann Medal to Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Wolfgang Gerok (20 kByte, pdf)
- ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Birthdays
- ↑ Member entry of Wolfgang Gerok at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 6, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerok, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |