Wu Zhongbi
Wu Zhongbi (born March 19, 1919 in Anhui Province in China , † November 14, 2007 in Wuhan ) was a Chinese doctor (pathology, forensic medicine).
Life
Wu Zhongbi grew up in poor conditions in Shanghai and Nanjing . His father was a factory clerk and he is the oldest of nine siblings. He was constantly on the run during the turmoil of the war with Japan, but passed the Abitur at the Tongji Middle School in Shanghai in 1939 and studied medicine at the Tongji University in Shanghai. He also learned German very well; the Tongji University was founded on a German initiative as a medical college in 1907 and emerged from a hospital of the German doctor Erich Paulun . His studies coincided with the Japanese War and he completed most of it during the evacuation and march to Hanoi. In 1946 he became an assistant doctor in pathology at Tongji University and in 1950 a lecturer. When Tongji University was moved to Wuhang, he moved with it and became an associate professor there in 1956. During the Cultural Revolution (from 1966) he was subjected to humiliation and harassment and was imprisoned several times. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, he became a full professor in 1976. He headed the Institute of Pathology. He died of colon cancer. His friend the surgeon Qiu Fazu operated on him successfully, but metastases had already formed.
He particularly researched schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis), which also led to the development of a vaccine in collaboration with the University of Heidelberg. He wrote 20 monographs and textbooks and translated many handbooks and textbooks from German into Chinese. He was chairman of the Hubei Province and All China Pathology Society. He visited Germany regularly for decades and brokered many partnerships between universities and hospitals.
He was in Wuhan in 1984, together with his friend, the surgeon, Qiu Fazu (1914–2008), a founding member (and one of the founding presidents) of the Sino-German Society for Medicine (CDGM) and advocated scientific exchange with Germany, whereby he placed many medical students in Germany. He was also present when the DCGM (German-Chinese Society for Medicine) was founded in Cologne in 1984.
Awards
- 1986: Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1988: Member of the Leopoldina
- 1994: Honorary doctorate from Ulm University
- 1998: Honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University
- 2005: Honorary doctorate from the University of Essen
- 2002: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
- 2007: Paulun Medal from the DCGM .
literature
- Ursus-Nikolaus Riede, Martin Werner, Nikolaus Freudenberg: Basic knowledge of general and special pathology. Springer 2009 (short biographies of Wu Zhongbi and Qiu Fazu in the book's dedication to both, limited preview in the Google book search).
- Wilhelm-Wolfgang Höpker: 100 years of German-Chinese cooperation in medicine. Lively exchange in many areas In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 105, 2008, issue 49, biography on p. A 2649 ( online)
Web links
- Member entry of Zhongbi Wu at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on September 22, 2017.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wu, Zhongbi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Anhui Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2007 |
| Place of death | Wuhan |