Friedrich Vogel (human geneticist)

Friedrich Otto Vogel (March 6, 1925, Berlin – August 5, 2006, Heidelberg) was a German human geneticist. Together with Arno Motulsky he established in 1964 the journal Human Genetics, of which he remained editor-in-chief for more than 25 years.^[1] He was a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.^[2] In 1962, Vogel was named professor of human genetics and founding chair of the Institute of Anthropologie and Human Genetics at Heidelberg University.^[3] Vogel became the leading German human geneticist and was largely responsible for the rehabilitation of this field after the excesses of the Nazi regime (1932-1945).^[4]

Selected works

• Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Humangenetik. Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1961, ISBN 978-3-642-87295-2
• with Walter Fuhrmann: Genetische Familienberatung. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1968, OCLC 613203061
• with Arno Motulsky: Human Genetics - Problems and Approaches. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1979, ISBN 3-540-09459-8
• with Peter Propping: Ist unser Schicksal mitgeboren?. Berlin 1981 ISBN 3-88680-012-1

References

1. Hudson, Thomas J. (2014). "Human Genetics' 50th Anniversary Issue". Human Genetics 133 (4): 381–382. doi:10.1007/s00439-014-1433-5. PMID 24595704.
2. Andreas Dafferner (2014-03-11). "The members of the HAW since its foundation in the year 1909: Friedrich Vogel". Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
3. Propping, Peter; Bartram, Claus R. (2006). "Friedrich Vogel 1925–2006". Human Genetics 120 (6): 751. doi:10.1007/s00439-006-0298-7.
4. Sperling, Karl (2006). "Obituary: Prof. Dr. Med. Dr. H. C. Friedrich Vogel (1925–2006)". Human Genetics 120 (6): 755. doi:10.1007/s00439-006-0297-8.

External links

Literature by and about Friedrich Vogel (human geneticist) in the German National Library catalogue