Academic career

Prof. em. Dr. Brigitte Lohff

 

1965-1970

Studied psychology at the University of Hamburg; Dipl. Psych;

Employment as a criminal psychologist at the Hamburg judicial authority

 

1971-1975

Studied history of natural sciences, biology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg

 

1975-1986

Research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Pharmacy at Kiel University;

Dr. rer. nat. at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Hamburg (1977);

Habilitation and venia legendi in the history of medicine (1986);

Exhibitions in cooperation with the Zoological Museum of the CAU Kiel:

  • Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Life and work (1982);
  • Viktor Hensen (1835-1924) physiologist and plant researcher at Kiel University (1986);
  • "Evolution and the human being" (1986).

 

1987-1994

Private lecturer at the University of Kiel;

1990 Scientific Counselor;

1993 associate professor.

Exhibitions:

  • Heinrich Irenäus Quincke Professor of Medicine at the CAU Kiel (1987);
  • 100 years of plankton research. In cooperation with the Institute of Oceanography and the Zoological Museum of Kiel University (1988).

Collaboration in symposia of the International Institute for Theoretical Cardiology:

  • Über die grundsätzlichen Möglichkeiten einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Philosophie und Wissenschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Medizin und der Kardiologie. Bad Orb (1989);
  • Myocardial Optimization and Efficiency and its Evolutionary Aspects. Graz/Austria (1990);
  • Foundational Issues in Molecular Cardiology- New Avenues at the Interface of Molecular Biology and Cardiology. Groningen (1994) www.iiftc.de

 

1994-2013

Chair of History of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School

Organization of the VIII Symposium of the International Institute for Theoretical Cardiology Molecular Genetics, Self-Healing Powers and Naturopathy. Attempt at a synthesis, Hanover (1995);

Exhibition on the occasion of Fritz Hartmann's 75th birthday: Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728-1795) and 18th century medicine, Hanover (1996);

Several research stays in Montpellier, France.

Conference organization of the international conference "Women, Health and Society" as part of the EXPO World Conference"Medicine Meets Millennium" Hanover (2000).

 

2001-2004

EU project"Gender aspects in medical education" in cooperation with Prof. Lesley Doyal, University of Bristol, UK.

1999-2004: several research stays of several months at the Centro Latino-Americanó de Estudos de Vioencia e Saúde Jorge Careli [CLAVES] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Instituto Fernandes Figueira; Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

 

2005-2009

DFG project "Politics in German and British medical journals from the interwar period to the 1950s" Priority Program 1143 "Wissenschaft Politik und Gesellschaft. Germany in an international context in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Persons, institutions, discourses";

Exhibition: 1965-2005: 40 years of Hannover Medical School: Joint Annual Conference of the DGGMNT/GWG "Science, ideology and mentality (2009).

 

From 2007

Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna