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Volker Klimpel

b. 1941

German medical historian

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Born 1941. Volker Klimpel is a German medical historian, non-fiction writer, history of medicine, physician and surgeon.

Volker Klimpel (born 27 December 1941) is a German surgeon and medical historian.

Life Born in Weimar, Klimpel studied medicine at the Leipzig University and the . He received his surgical training under in Eisenach and in Erfurt. Hellerau, Dresden 1998. Schriftsteller-Ärzte. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1999. Frauen der Medizin. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2001. Berühmte Dresdner. Hellerau, Dresden 2002. Politiker-Ärzte. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2001. . Ärzte-Tode. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005. Lexikon fremdsprachiger Schriftsteller-Ärzte. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2006. Das medizinische Dresden. Hellerau, Dresden 2009. Das heilkundige Sachsen. Hellerau, Dresden 2011. Asklepios trifft Kalliope. Medizinisch-literarische Begegnungen. WiKu, Cologne 2014. Dresdner Ärzte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Historisch-biographisches Lexikon. Hille Verlag, Dresden 2015. . Chirurgie in Dresden – Streiflichter ihrer Geschichte. Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017. . Im Dunstkreis der Macht. Chirurgen um Hitler. Chirurgische Allgemeine, 18. Jahrgang, 6th issue (2017). Skalpell und Feder: Unbekannte und vergessene Schriftsteller-Ärzte. Weißensee, Berlin 2018. . Zugeeignet. Medizinhistorische und andere Erinnerungen aus fünf Jahrzehnten. Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2018. .

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1941, Weimar
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Medical historian, non-fiction writer, history of medicine, physician, surgeon
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Who is Volker Klimpel?

German medical historian

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Volker Klimpel was born in 1941 in Weimar.

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Volker Klimpel is a medical historian, non-fiction writer, history of medicine, physician and surgeon.

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Volker Klimpel is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Volker Klimpel

· Wikidata: Q15853105

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