Claus-Frenz Claussen

Claus- Frenz Claussen, actually: Claussen ( born May 28, 1939 in Husum, North Friesland, Schleswig -Holstein ) is a German otolaryngologist, author, editor, visual artist and inventor. He was the first high school teacher for Neurootology in Germany.

Life

Claussen studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Hamburg, where he earned his German medical state examination and the U.S. ECFMG examination and in 1965 received his doctorate with his dissertation on " Comparison of the enteral absorption of digoxin and Digoxinestern " Dr. med. During his studies, he attended on a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German people abroad courses at the universities of Toulouse ( France), Oxford ( England ), Oslo (Norway ), Gothenburg (Sweden), Copenhagen and Aarhus (both Denmark).

In the years 1965-1967 a medical assistant in Hamburg and Simmerath (Eifel ), worked as a research assistant at the University ENT Clinic of the Free University of Berlin from 1967 to 1970, from 1968 to 1969 had research stays on the territory of the then new Neurootology at Nils Gunnar Henriksson (1920-1999) in Lund (Sweden) and developed numerous neurootological tests such as the " Cranio - Corpo - graphy ".

In 1970 he habilitated at the University of Berlin as the first high school teacher for Neurootology in Germany ( " doctrine of the healthy and diseased function of the head meaning "). The title of his habilitation thesis was: "On the recording and analysis of selected quantitative balance function tests ". At that time he developed since 1969 in parallel with the corresponding departments at the university hospitals in Berlin and Würzburg, and was from 1971 in Würzburg their department head at the University ENT Clinic in the head Hospital of the University of Würzburg, where he in 1971 settled umhabilitieren for the subject Neurotology.

From 1972 to 1974, he moved his research to Buenos Aires ( Argentina), where he studied under Juan Manuel Tato ( 1902-2004 ) his own concept of modern Äquilibriometrie, the objective and quantitative functional measure of balance is formulated in a textbook published for the first time. He was also to several research stays at Ashton Graybiel in the sensory physiology laboratories of NASA in Pensacola (Florida ).

Until his retirement after the conclusion of the summer semester 2004 Claussen was a professor, since 1978 Professor of Neurotology at the " Department of Ear, Nose and Throat sick " of the University of Würzburg. He examined the regulation of balance, the sensory functions of the organs of hearing, as well as the smell and taste perception.

Work

Between 1967 and 1982 he built up a database containing information about 30,000 patients neurootological in Würzburg. It was possible through analysis of this database, to draw conclusions on diseases such as dizziness, images dancing and double vision, hearing or ringing in the ears ( tinnitus). Since that time (1972 ) Claussen has scientific collaborations with individual researchers and institutions on all continents.

In 1974 he was co-founder of the international " Society for Neuro-Otology and Aequilibriometrie " ( GNA ) in Bad Kissingen and 1981, the " Society for the Exploration of smell, taste, hearing and balance disorders " (4- G- Research), where he today is president. Even after his retirement, he has held several honorary positions as president or director of international trade organizations.

Claussen was and still is the organizer and leader of numerous international congresses on neurotology and head sensory abnormalities as well as their treatment, which he often keeps in his home in Bad Kissingen. So he organized since 1974 annually the "International Neurootologists Congress" with participants from 33 countries.

Memberships

Claussen is a member, corresponding member and honorary member of numerous scientific societies and clubs in Europe, America and Asia, such as

• " Bárány Society ", Uppsala, Sweden
• "Aerospace Medical Society ", Washington DC, USA
• " Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians " ( GDNÄ )
• " German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics " ( DGGG )
• " German Society of Oto-Rhino - Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery "
• Representatives Committee of the " Automobile Club of Germany " ( AVD )

Honors

• In 1983 he was made an honorary member of the "Hungarian ear, nose and throat society"
• On April 17th 1991 he was on the medical faculty of the University of Granada (Spain ), the Medal of Honor of the Faculty " con admiracion y afecto " awarded
• On January 22, 2001, he was in Budapest ( Hungary) at the "Day of Hungarian Culture " in Stefanie 's (former baroque palace of the Esterházy family) in an act of state the title of " Knight of the Hungarian culture " with the Rakoczy Order
• On November 19, 2004, he in Chennai (formerly Madras, India) was the lifelong honorary membership of the " Indian otological society" awarded
• On 15 March 2005, he received the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), the "Golden Medal of Honour of the medical faculty "
• On 1 January 2007 he received the Public Service Medal of the city of Bad Kissingen

In addition to medicine, Claussen dedicated since 1972 to the visual arts ( steel sculptures and oil paintings ). In the Upper Franconian Eisenbühl ( district court ) he operates ( " the Ironbender of Eisenbühl " ) a steel pictorial studio, an art park (from 1997, with repeated expansion, most recently in 2009) and a museum hall. Some of its major steel sculptures are in public places in Switzerland, Baden- Württemberg, Berlin and Franconia since 1981. A large steel sculpture stands since 1997 in the courtyard of the Berlin Charité. His art works are on display since 1992 at a number of solo exhibitions.

He holds since 1975 at the invitation of the Academy of Arts of the State University of New York, and since 1976 at the University of Würzburg regularly lectures on " the relationship between science and art with practical examples ." In 2002 Claussen formulated the concept of " narrative Sensologismus " as a bridge between science, art and philosophy at home and abroad giving lectures on the subject.

Claussen since 1987, founding member of the " Association for the general promotion of art " ( VAK ) in Lichtenberg ( Upper Franconia ), and since 1997, a founding member and Vice President of the European art association " Via Europae Sculpturarum ".

Since 1992 Claussen is the official artist of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth with its own exhibition sculptures inside and outside the Festspielhaus.

His books on the subject of "art" are:

• Fire, Steel and logic. About relationships between science and art. Edition M. and P. Rudat, Hamburg and Neu-Isenburg 1979, ISBN 3-922326-13-7
• Steel sculptures in Berger angle. Steel signs of being over water and land in Claussen 's iron park to Eisenbühl. Bad Kissingen 2005, ISBN 3-000169679
• Turn - running life. Poems. Self Publishing, Bad Kissingen

"Science is impression that art is an expression ," says Claussen, because both go from an idea from that, whether in the artistic work or scientific proof "shape" is. "Whatever a man seeks in art, science, religion and philosophy, is the truth - but how we can capture with our limited perception at all," he asks. (Source: Fire, Steel and Logic About interrelationships between science and art.. )

Inventor

Retired to Claussen dedicated now in addition to his project of a computer-based, self-steering, health supported and technically secure robot cars for senior citizens, called by him "Auto Cyberno - mobile " to the desired mobility in consequence of demographic change also old people receive.

His book on this subject called:

• The car - Cyberno mobile. An autonomous, medical technologists road vehicle for individual rides in the third phase of life. Neurootologisches Research Institute of the Society for the Study of smell, taste, hearing and balance disorders (ed.), Bad Kissingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-000209413

Works

So far, Claussen has provided about 500 publications in four languages ​​to medical-scientific, artistic and technical topics. He is also editor of the " International Tinnitus Journal" ( ITJ; ISSN 0946-5448 ).