Wolfgang Jacob

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Wolfgang Jacob (born September 18, 1919 ; † April 6, 1994 ) was a German doctor , social medicine specialist and medical philosopher .

Life

Wolfgang Jacob belonged to Viktor von Weizsäcker's school and to the representatives of anthropological medicine . He completed his habilitation in 1967 with a paper on Rudolf Virchow for pathology under Wilhelm Doerr , with the support of the medical historian Heinrich Schipperges . Jacob initially worked as an internist and tuberculosis doctor in Heidelberg and got professional difficulties due to his medical-anthropological views. Finally, he worked at the Pathological Institute under the direction of Wilhelm Doerr, where, with the blessing of the institute director, he headed the department for documentation, social and historical pathology. From 1970 to 1974 he was vice dean of the faculty for theoretical medicine and from 1979 head of the department for occupational and social hygiene. In addition to publications and a. Concerning the long-term consequences of incarceration in a concentration camp , fundamental work on medical theory and the Gestalt group should be mentioned in particular.

Wolfgang Jacob set great store by interdisciplinary cooperation. At the meeting of the Society for the History of Science in Marburg in January 1967, it was therefore important to him that the Heidelberg educationalist Hermann Röhrs was able to take part in a forum entitled “Questions about the Modern History of Science”. Karl Eduard Rothschuh paused for the key note of this conference . Wolfgang Jacob, for his part, spoke about " Virchow's concept of nature ."

The medical historian Heinz Schott is one of Wolfgang Jacob's students .

Wolfgang Jacob also supervised theses at the sister school of the University of Heidelberg .

literature

  • Peter Hahn : In memory of Wolfgang Jacob. In: Ruth Hampe et al .: KunstReiz: Neurobiological aspects of artistic therapies. Frank & Timme, 2008, ISBN 3865961851 .
  • 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 In: Heinz Schott's Unpublished Writings & Miscellanea.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

Fonts (selection)

  • Wolfgang Jacob. From the sociological legacy of Rudolf Virchow. Medicine as a human science . In: Janus , Brill, Leiden Volume 52 (1965), pp. 218-240
  • Wolfgang Jacob: Illness and illness: anthropological foundations of a theory of medicine. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1978 ISBN 3-7785-0526-2
  • Wolfgang Jacob: Medical anthropology in the 19th century: man, nature, society. Contribution to a theoretical pathology. On the intellectual history of social medicine and Virchow's general pathology.
  • Wolfgang Jacob, Gustav Wagner: Diseases of the nervous system: Diseases of the nervous system caused by physical-chemical effects.
  • Wolfgang Jacob (1991), Viktor von Weizsäcker. In: Dietrich von Engelhardt and Fritz Hartmann (eds.): Classics of medicine. Volume 2: From Philippe Pinel to Viktor von Weizsäcker. Munich 1991, pp. 366-387.
  • P. Hahn, W. Jacob, L. Klinger: Gestaltkreislabor. Final report. Medical Clinic of the University of Heidelberg. Heidelberg.
  • Wolfgang Jacob: Social Physiology and Gestalt Circle - Prolegomena to a Social Disease Theory. Models of pathological physiology. W. Doerr, H. Schipperges (Eds.) 153-69. Springer, Berlin (among others).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer M. Jacobi: 100 years of Wolfgang Jacob. Communications from the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society No. 38 , 2020, In: Advances in Neurology • Psychiatrie 88 (03), 2020, p. 210 f.
  2. ^ A b 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
  3. ^ Correspondence of the Educational Science Seminar University of Heidelberg, Rep. 211/219, University Archives Heidelberg.
  4. ↑ Heinz Schott : Work and Illness, a medical-sociological contribution to the problem of rehabilitation. Attempt to take stock that is critical of science , dissertation at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University 1974.
  5. ^ Correspondence with the sister school of Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Archives (UAH), Acc 43/08.

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personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, social medicine specialist and medical philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1919
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1994