Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1993) 176-200
Keywords:
Remak, Robert,
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
;
Jews Medicine
;
Jews Science
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces Remak's career and discusses his attitude to emancipation, assimilation, and conversion (which he refused). In 1847, on the basis of his high personal qualifications and a "special dispensation" from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, to whom he had submitted a petition, he received the "Habilitation" (permission to teach) at the University of Berlin medical school. At about the same time, the king, in spite of the opposition of the Minister of Culture, sponsored a law opening the "Habilitation" to all Jews, subject to the statutes of individual universities. Since their statutes defined all the universities except Berlin as "Christian", in effect only Berlin was open to Jews. A majority of the Berlin medical school faculty supported the "Habilitation" of Jews, but a large minority was opposed, citing Jewish "peculiarities" and the danger of lowered ethical standards.
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