Armin Geus Explained

Armin Geus
Birth Date:1937
Birth Place:Bad Staffelstein
Nationality:German
Fields:History of medicine,
history of biology
Workplaces:University of Marburg

Armin Geus (pronounced as /de/; born 1937) is a German medical historian and historian of biology.

Career

Geus received his academic education in zoology with a specialisation in parasitology.[1] In 1964, he obtained his PhD for a work on the gregarinasina of Central European arthropods.[2] In 1973, he became professor for history of medicine at the University of Marburg, a post he held until his retirement.[3] In 1976, Geus founded the Basilisken-Presse, a publishing house specialized in the history of science, particularly the history of biology.[4] In 1991, he established the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie ("German society for the history and theory of biology"). In 1998, the society was developed into the Biohistoricum, a biology museum with a research archive that is considered the only institution of its kind in Germany.[1]

In 2008, Geus published a collection of essays critical of Islam entitled Gegen die feige Neutralität ("Against coward neutrality") with contributions by a number of German academics and journalists, including Karl Doehring, Ralph Giordano, Michael Miersch and Tilman Nagel.[5]

In 2011, Geus published his work Die Krankheit des Propheten ("The sickness of the prophet") which he said examined the pathography of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, from a medical point of view. Geus attests Muhammad a "paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia with defined delusional imaginings and characteristic sensual deceptions".[6] [7] The book ranked in the top ten non-fiction list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in June 2011, receiving a number of reviews from colleagues and in the press.[7] [8] [9] A subsequent lawsuit by the Saudi-financed King Fahd Academy in Bonn with reference to the German blasphemy law was dismissed by the Marburg state prosecutor in October 2010,[10] [11] after Geus' defence team had invoked the academic freedom guaranteed by the German constitution. In September 2012, the anti-Islam organisation Citizens' Movement Pax Europa had brought the case, which it said was an attempt at "silencing" critical scholars, to an OSCE human rights conference at Warsaw.[12]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/unijournal/8/Biohistoricum Das Biohistoricum
  2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Die Gregarinen der land- und süßwasserbewohnenden Arthropoden Mitteleuropas, retrieved 18 January 2013
  3. http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news283985 Biohistoricum zieht von Neuburg an der Donau nach Bonn um
  4. https://www.ssl-id.de/basilisken-presse.de/verlagsgeschichte_ Verlagsgeschichte
  5. Armin Geus; Stefan Etzel (eds.): Gegen die feige Neutralität: Beiträge zur Islamkritik, Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2008,
  6. Armin Geus: Die Krankheit des Propheten, Basilisken-Presse, Marburg an der Lahn 2011,, pp. 74–75
  7. [Thomas Junker]
  8. http://hpd.de/node/11816 Rezension. Die Krankheit des Propheten
  9. http://www.webarchiv-server.de/pin/archiv12/2020120519paz59.htm Aus der Feder eines Kranken?
  10. http://www.citizentimes.eu/2012/10/14/etappensieg-fur-meinungsfreiheit/ Etappensieg für Meinungsfreiheit. Staatsanwaltschaft Marburg stellt Strafverfahren gegen Medizinhistoriker Prof. Dr. Armin Geus ein
  11. http://www.express.de/bonn-nachrichten/staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-fahd-akademie--anzeige-gegen-historiker,16812184,17244026.html Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt. Fahd-Akademie: Anzeige gegen Historiker
  12. http://www.osce.org/odihr/94658 Statement by Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa. Freedom of expression – Silencing intellectuals

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