Friedrich Jung

Friedrich Jung (21 April 1915 – 5 August 1997) was a German doctor who became a leading Academic and Research Pharmacologist in the German Democratic Republic.

Between 1949 and 1972 he was a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He also served as the director of various research institutes outside the universities sector including, between 1972 and 1980, the at Berlin-Buch.

Life

Early years Friedrich Jung was born in Friedrichshafen, a prosperous mid-sized town on the north shore of the Bodensee. Between 1934 and 1939 he studied Medicine at Tübingen, Königsberg and Berlin.

War Widespread European war had broken out in 1939. In 1940/41 Jung worked as a junior doctor in a medical corps. In 1941/42 he worked at the in Berlin, where he was involved in a poison gas research project. Within the German Democratic Republic most of the teaching professorships in Pharmacology and a plethora of other senior posts in the academic institutes with a biomedical focus came to be occupied by former students of Friedrich Jung. Prominent among these was Werner Scheler. Jung's pupils also included Peter Oehme and Hansjürgen Matthies.

Recognition Friedrich Jung – Publications (not a complete list) Arzneiverordnungen. Hirzel, Leipzig 1958 (als Mitherausgeber) Arzt und Philosophie. Humanismus, Erkenntnis, Praxis. Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1961 (mit anderen Autoren) Kommentar zum Deutschen Arzneibuch. 7. Ausgabe. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969 mehrere Tagungsbände zu den von der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin veranstalteten Internationalen Symposien über Struktur und Funktion der Erythrocyten. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin zwischen 1959 und 1975 (als Mitherausgeber) Student und Arzt in jener Zeit. In: Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Achim Thom (Hrsg.): Das Schicksal der Medizin im Faschismus. Auftrag und Verpflichtung zur Bewahrung von Humanismus und Frieden. Internationales wissenschaftliches Symposium europäischer Sektionen der IPPNW (17.–18. November 1988, Erfurt/Weimar/DDR). Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1989, p. 274–281. 1957 National Prize of East Germany 1961 Corresponding member German Academy of Sciences (bio-sciences division) 1962 Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze 1963 Honoured Doctor of the People 1964 Full member German Academy of Sciences (bio-sciences division) 1965 National Prize of East Germany 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver 1985 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold 1987 National Prize of East Germany