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François Rabelais

François Rabelais

François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] (c. 1494, perhaps 1483, in La Devinière near Chinon, Touraine; † April 9, 1553, in Paris) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, Roman Catholic friar and secular priest, practicing physician, and lecturer. He is one of the most important prose writers in French literature; of his works, the novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel is most well-known. Rabelais-Museum Rabelais began his novitiate as a religious priest in the Franciscan monastery Read more [...]
Adolf-Friedrich Holstein

Adolf-Friedrich Holstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt8s4yIHU7w Statements spoken by Adolf Friedrich Holstein Wolfgang Ellenberger was one of Prof. Holstein's anatomy students and was able to provide the musical accompaniment for his 80th birthday. The history of the Hamburg Museum of Medical History began in 2007. The UKE board of directors asked the UKE's Friends and Supporters Association to restore what is now the Fritz Schumacher House after the Institute of Pathology had moved out and to find a Read more [...]
Peter robert Berry

Peter robert Berry

Peter Robert Berry (* September 11, 1864 in St. Moritz; † November 14, 1942 in St. Moritz) was a physician and painter from St. Moritz in the canton of Graubünden. Peter Robert Berry was born the eldest son of the Chur physician Peter Berry I and his wife Cecilia Berry-Stoppani. Peter Berry came to St. Moritz on the advice of his brother-in-law, the hotelier Johannes Badrutt, and was one of the first spa physicians to work in the "New Kurhaus," which opened in 1864. Berry attended the Read more [...]
Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe

Axel Martin Fredrik "Puck" Munthe [ˌakːsəl ˈmɵnːtə] (October 31, 1857 in Oskarshamn – February 11, 1949 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and author. Beruf und Leben https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wGu6dfpLE Axel Munthe was born in 1857, the son of a pharmacist. He studied medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris. In 1880 he began practicing medicine in Paris and Rome. Over the years he worked in Naples, London and Stockholm. During his student years in Paris Read more [...]
Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main; September 20, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German psychiatrist, poet, and children's book author. He is the author of Struwwelpeter (The Struwwel Peter). He also used the pseudonyms Heulalius von Heulenburg, Reimerich Kinderlieb, Peter Struwwel, and Polycarpus Gastfenger. Politics In 1848, he was a member of the Frankfurt Preliminary Parliament. He hosted the revolutionary Friedrich Hecker in his household. Hoffmann himself advocated Read more [...]
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller, porträtiert von Ludovike Simanowiz im Jahr 1794 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ⓘ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born Read more [...]
Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов[note 1], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860[note 2] – 15 July 1904[note 3]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.[4][5] Along with Henrik Read more [...]
Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.[2] From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37YfeJ6MoBY During World War II, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy, majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 Read more [...]
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ] (listen); 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German[3] polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His Read more [...]