Person Fritz Dross

Prof. Dr. phil., Studium der Geschichte und Informationswissenschaft. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Geschichte von Hospital, Krankenhaus und Gesundheitsversorgung (15.–19. Jh.) sowie Gynäkologie im Nationalsozialismus.

Fritz Dross, born in 1965, works as an assistant professor at the institute for the history of medicine and medical ethics at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen. The historian did his doctorate on the history of urban hospitals around 1800 in Düsseldorf. In his research, he focuses on the history of hospitals, health care provision and poor relief in the early modern period as well as the history of gynecology in the 20th century.