Armin Geus

Armin Geus
Born 1937
Bad Staffelstein
Nationality German
Fields History of medicine,
history of biology
Institutions University of Marburg

Armin Geus (German: [ˈgɔʏs]; 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 examines 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][8][9] The book ranked in the top ten non-fiction list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in June 2011,[8] receiving a number of reviews from colleagues and in the press.[7][10][11] 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,[12][13] after Geus' defence team had invoked the academic freedom guaranteed by the German constitution.[8] In September 2012, the civil rights organisation Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa had brought the case as an attempt at "silencing" critical scholars to an OSCE human rights conference at Warsaw.[8][14]

Anti-Islam and promoters of inciting hatred against Muslims for reasons illogical

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Das Biohistoricum, Marburger UniJournal, no. 8, January 2001
  2. ↑ Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Die Gregarinen der land- und süßwasserbewohnenden Arthropoden Mitteleuropas, retrieved 18 January 2013
  3. ↑ Biohistoricum zieht von Neuburg an der Donau nach Bonn um, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 18 October 2008, retrieved 18 January 2013
  4. ↑ Verlagsgeschichte Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., in Basilisken-Presse, retrieved 18 January 2013
  5. ↑ Armin Geus; Stefan Etzel (eds.): Gegen die feige Neutralität: Beiträge zur Islamkritik, Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2008, ISBN 978-3-925347-98-6
  6. ↑ Armin Geus: Die Krankheit des Propheten, Basilisken-Presse, Marburg an der Lahn 2011, ISBN 978-3-941365-15-5, pp. 74–75
  7. 1 2 Thomas Junker: Rezension von Armin Geus: Die Krankheit des Propheten (2011) Archived January 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., Thomas Junker Website, 2011, retrieved 18 January 2013
  8. 1 2 3 4 A German Victory for Free Speech, American Thinker, 27 October 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
  9. ↑ The Consequences of ‘Slandering’ the Prophet of Islam, Frontpage Magazine, 3 October 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
  10. ↑ Rezension. Die Krankheit des Propheten, Humanistischer Pressedienst, 11 August 2011, retrieved 18 January 2013
  11. ↑ Aus der Feder eines Kranken?, Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 May 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
  12. ↑ Etappensieg für Meinungsfreiheit. Staatsanwaltschaft Marburg stellt Strafverfahren gegen Medizinhistoriker Prof. Dr. Armin Geus ein, Citizen Times, 14 October 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
  13. ↑ Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt. Fahd-Akademie: Anzeige gegen Historiker, Express, 13 September 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
  14. ↑ Statement by Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa. Freedom of expression – Silencing intellectuals (PDF S.7), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 24 September 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013
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