Armin Geus

Johann Georg Armin Geus ( * 1937 in Bad Season stone ) is a German biology and medical historian.

Life

Geus studied biology, history and art history and completed his academic training as a zoologist specializing in parasitology from. In 1963 he received his PhD at the Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen -Nuremberg as a Doctor of Natural Sciences, the title of his dissertation was the gregarines of agricultural and süßwasserbewohnenden arthropods in Central Europe. From 1973 until his retirement he was a professor of history of medicine at the University of Marburg.

Work

Biology and Medicine

Geus is particularly committed to the establishment of the history of biology as a Forschungsgestand. For 1976, he founded the Basilisk Press, a publishing house for the History of Science and Biology in particular history, bibliophile facsimile editions of historical scientific works, partly cultural-historical writings published in the early years. 1991 saw the founding of the German Society for the History and Theory of biology, from the 1998 emerged the Biohistoricum, a biology museum with attached research archive, which is considered the only facility of its kind in Germany. For the museum Geus procured 12,000 volumes of technical literature and 130,000 reprints, which were donated by institutions or archives of bioscience companies.

Geus published on the history of the natural sciences, especially biology and medicine. In his 2007 together with Ekkehard Höxtermann out a given book Evolution by cooperation and integration, he presents the taz - editor Helmut Höge considers a " stimulating counter-model to Darwin's model of evolution ," the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin stands as Darwin 's critics at its center.

Social criticism

Since the late 1990s there Geus, partly under the pseudonym of Johann Georg mouse Inger ( anagram of Armin Geus ), in its publisher Basilisk Press writings on current social debates and time-critical essays out. In a reception in the journal Education and criticism from the year 2011, these expenditures attributed to "a strong impetus of Enlightenment ". First publication of this series is a satire news from the Karma research from 1998, the ideas of reincarnation Rudolf Steiner esotericist be illustrated as delusions in the Fund with a fictional story.

2002 saw Yeshua. The daughter of God, which conveys the opinion of this reviewer Helmut Walther reading pleasure useful factual knowledge to parthenogenesis, the circumcision and the adrenogenital syndrome. Therefore it could be demonstrated by genetic studies that disappeared in 1983 in the Church of the Holy Foreskin Calcata relic of a woman comes from. Thus would be Jesus Christ " with the help of the Holy Spirit of God the Father parthenogenetic begotten daughter of the Virgin Mary ," but which was cut as the supposed boy because of a congenital adrenogenital syndrome. The thesis of feminist theology "of the feminine nature of God" might accordingly based on verifiable evidence. In the same series, 2004, the band appeared in the harem of the Prophet in which Geus a connection between the love life of Muhammad and constructed individual suras of the Koran.

2006 participated Geus, who " dealt intensively with the backgrounds of biodynamics [e ] " According to Spiegel, the protest against a takeover of an existing endowed professorship for biodynamic agriculture at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen by the State of Hesse; Geus called biodynamic agriculture-related " a figment of anthroposophic spinning ".

Publications on Islam

In his Basilisk Press Geus, the collection of essays against the cowardly neutrality was 2008: Contributions to the criticism of Islam out who attracted attention both at right blogs and newspapers such as Politically Incorrect and the Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung as well as in the journal Education and criticism and of the Humanist Press.

Also in his own publishing house published Geus 2011, the book The illness of the Prophet. A pathographischer essay. It says: " Quran and Hadith contain numerous indications that Muhammad was ill defined with delusions and hallucinations characteristic since the first revelation to a paranoid- hallucinatory schizophrenia ". Geus, who is not a professional psychologist or psychiatrist himself, based on his own interpretation of these texts and literature ( 600 titles ) of all relevant disciplines.

The book was in June 2011 on the SZ, NDR, inter alia, established list of non-fiction books of the month of the online magazine Telepolis and was reviewed Junge Freiheit, Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung, Blue Daffodil and the Humanist Press service of the Giordano Bruno Foundation ( gbs ) into the right newspapers. The journalist Harald Stein Mart recommended the essay in his satirical column in the time counters Geus but the fact that he, Stone Mart, the Koran have taken a sentence that says " more for a pathological hatred [ of the Prophet ] on camels ."

Writings

• Snakes, their housing and care. With particular regard to the appropriate species for the beginner ( = master - Library, No. 167). Philler, Minden (Westphalia ) in 1961. English translation by Christa Ahrens: The proper care of snakes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ 1992. ISBN 0-86622-185-9.

• Indices scientific and medical periodicals until 1850. Hiersemann, Stuttgart. Vol 1 The naturalist 1774-1804 (1971). ISBN 3-7772-7107-1.
• Vol 2 Dietrich von Engelhardt: The chemical journals of Lorenz von Crell (1974). ISBN 3-7772-7424-0.
• Vol 3 Bernd Wimmel: The animal medical journals of the 18th century (1981; Geus also Editor). ISBN 3-7772-8137-9.

• ( Editors ) commemorative of the Natural Science Society Bayreuth, 1889-1964, Scientific Society, Bayreuth 1964.
• ( research assistant ) Karl -Dietrich Keller: The colored mushroom book. 96 four-color illustrations fungus and its main features ( = The Falcon Library; Vol. 215). Drawings of Christofani et al Falken -Verlag Sicker, Wiesbaden 1965.
• ( Editor and introduction; Daniel Giraud Elliot employees ) Joseph Wolf: The Birds of Paradise: after dinner the issue of 1873 ( = The bibliophile paperbacks, 193). Haren mountain, Dortmund 1980 ISBN. 3-88379-193-8.
• ( Edit ) Nicolas Robert: Tulips: by the miniatures in the Austrian National Library ( = The bibliophile paperbacks, No. 237). Haren mountain, Dortmund 1981. ISBN 3-88379-237-3.
• ( Processing ) Johann Jakob Walther: The bird book: after the tables of the collection of the Albertina in Vienna ( = The bibliophile paperbacks, No. 308). Haren mountain, Dortmund 1982. 3-88379-308-6. ISBN 3-88379-308-6.
• ( Exhibition and catalog editor ): Ten years Basilisk Press Marburg from 1976 to 1986; Exhibition of the University of Konstanz Library, May 25, -. Basilisk Press June 27, 1987, Marburg / Lahn 1987 ISBN 3-925347 -02- X. .
• (Text with Friedhelm Lach ) Hans- Georg Rauch ( drawings): Physiognomia arborum. Basilisk Press, Marburg 1989. ISBN 3-925347-07-0.
• ( Design and editing of the catalog ) Culture Department of the City of Marburg (ed.): Apocalypse and belief: contemporary art in Lithuania. Marburg an der Lahn, Marburg University Museum of Art and Cultural History, 14.10. - 25.11.1990; Detmold, Lippe State Museum, 27.1. - 03/03/1991. Basilisk Press, Marburg / Lahn 1990. ISBN 3-925347-13-5.
• ( Comments) Christoph Fischer ( ed.): Medicare Cards: medical postcard book. Ullsteinhaus Mosby, Berlin and Wiesbaden 1994. ISBN 3-86126-085-9.
• (Text posts with Ekkehard Höxtermann and Irmgard Müller) bacteria Light & root fungus. Endosymbiosis in research and history. Biohistoricum Neuburg an der Donau, exhibition from 11 September 1998 to 1 November 1998 Medicine Historical Collection of the Ruhr University, Bochum, exhibition from 20 November 1998 to 15 January 1999. Basilisk Press, Marburg an der Lahn 1998. ISBN 3-925347-48-8.