Karl Eduard Rothschuh

{{short description|German cardiac physiologist, medical historian, and medical philosopher}}

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Karl Eduard Rothschuh (July 6, 1908, Aachen – September 3, 1984, Münster) was a German cardiac physiologist, medical historian, and medical philosopher.{{Cite journal |last=Toellner |first=R. |date=1985 |title=In memoriam Karl Eduard Rothschuh |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11629427 |journal=Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte |language=German |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1002/bewi.19850080102 |issn=0170-6233 |pmid=11629427}}{{Cite journal |last=Mergenthaler |first=Daniela |date=2004 |title=Medicine as task--Karl E. Rothschuh's philosophy of medicine |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15679017 |journal=Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=253–260 |doi=10.1007/s11019-004-6400-9 |issn=1386-7423 |pmid=15679017|s2cid=25738644 }}{{Cite web |last=Gerabek |first=Werner E. |date=2005 |title=Rothschuh, Karl |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118603299.html#ndbcontent |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Neue Deutsche Biographie |language=de}} He studied medicine at Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Vienna, and finally Berlin, where he was award the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1937. He was a professor of physiology until 1960 and of history of medicine until 1973 at the University of Münster. He is considered to be an important contributor to 20th-century German medical philosophy. He was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1969.{{Cite web |title=Karl Eduard Rothschuh |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/karl-eduard-rothschuh/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina |language=de-DE}}