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Curriculum Vitae of Urs Leo Gantenbein

Urs Leo Gantenbein has first studied mathematics and physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich which he completed in 1979 with a master's degree. He then worked as an assistant to the Mathematisches Seminar of the ETH and obtained the Diploma for Advanced Teaching Abilities (Diplom für das Höhere Lehramt). In 1983 he began to study medicine at the University of Zurich, finishing with the state examination in 1989 and a medical historical Dr. med. thesis in 1992 on the Paracelsian physician Angelus Sala (1576-1637). After six years of postgraduate clinical internship he received the FMH Certification in General Internal Medicine and resumed in 1995 a part-time medical practice in the city of Winterthur. From 1993 to 2003 he was a research fellow at the Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine of the University of Zurich with a teaching assignment. From 2004 to 2011 he remained research affiliate of the institute. Now he is research affiliate of the  Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and of the  Swiss Reformation Studies Institute, both at the University of Zurich.

In 1998 Urs Leo Gantenbein founded the Zurich Paracelsus Project which plays an important part in the field of Paracelsus Studies. In this function he is also the editor of the multi-volume  New Paracelsus Edition. Together with Didier Kahn of the Sorbonne University, Paris, Gantenbein is establishing a comprehensive Paracelsus Database:  THEO

Main Focus of Research
Paracelsus studies, history of medicine and pharmacy, especially of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, history of alchemy

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Memberships
Honorary Member of the Deutsche Bombastus-Gesellschaft DBG
Past-President of the Swiss Paracelsus Society SPG
Past Vice President of the International Paracelsus Society IPG
Member of the Kompetenzzentrum Zürcher Mediävistik (Center for Medieval Studies Zurich)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Theophrastus-Stiftung
Past-Secretary of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences SGGMN

Dr. Urs Leo Gantenbein MD MSc

Dr. med. Urs Leo Gantenbein

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