Ackerknecht, Erwin H. 1906-1988

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Name (Latin)
Ackerknecht, Erwin H. 1906-1988
Other forms of name
Ackerknecht, Erwin Henry, 1906-1988
Bauer, E., 1906-1988
Bauer, Emma, 1906-1988
Bauer, Erwin, 1906-1988
Bauer, Eugen, 1906-1988
Ackerknecht, Erwin Heinz, 1906-1988
Date of birth
1906-06-01
Date of death
1988-11-18
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 39439422
Wikidata: Q91371
Library of congress: n 50036881
Sources of Information
  • His A short history of medicine, 1982:t.p. (Erwin H. Ackerknecht, M.D.)
  • His Malaria in the upper Mississippi valley, 1760-1900 ... 1945:t.p. (Erwin H. Ackerknecht)
  • The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet--Trotskyists--bio-bibliographical sketches, viewed June 5, 2006(Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht; other names (bynames, pseud., etc.): Erwin Ackerknecht; Erwin Henry Ackerknecht; E. Bauer; Emma Bauer; Erwin Bauer; Eugen Bauer; b. June 1, 1906, Stettin, Germany; d. Nov. 18, 1988, Zürich, Switzerland; medical historian; prof. Dr. med.; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1948)
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Wikipedia description:

Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht (1 June 1906 – 18 November 1988) was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power. It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine. He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and cultural history. He became the first chair in the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin; the second such position in the United States.

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