Wolfgang Schaper

Wolfgang Schaper (born January 11, 1934 in Oschersleben ) is a German cardiologist .

After graduating from high school, Schaper studied medicine in Halle (Saale) and received his doctorate there in 1957. From 1960 he was head of the cardiovascular laboratory at the Janssen Research Foundation in Beerse / Belgium. He completed his habilitation in 1967 at the KU Leuven in Belgium. From 1972 until his retirement in 2004 he was Director of the Experimental Cardiology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad Nauheim and its Managing Director for many years. From 1973 he was honorary professor for experimental cardiology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1976 to 1989 Schaper was honorary managing director of the German Society for Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research .

Honors

• 1972 Arthur Weber Prize from the German Society for Circulatory Research
• 1982 Outstanding Research Award from the International Society of Heart Research
• 1995 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde , Glasgow
• 1996 Prize of the Spa Foundation, Fondation Nationale pour la Recherche Scientifique
• 1997 International Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• 1998 Basic Research Medal of the European Society of Cardiology
• 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Prize
• 2000 Carl Ludwig Medal of the German Society for Circulatory Research
• 2002 Prize of the Pitzer Foundation
• 2005 Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2007 honorary citizen of the city of Bad Nauheim

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schaper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Dr. H. c. Wolfgang Schaper receives the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (May 11, 2005) (accessed on October 23, 2013)