Gunther von Hagens’ life reads like an archetypal scientist’s resume—distinguished by early precocity, scholarship, discovery, experimentation, and invention. It is also the profile of a man shaped by extraordinary events, and marked by defiance and daring…
Dr. Gunther von Hagens completed his medical studies at the University of Lübeck in 1973. In 1974, he received his license to practice medicine before moving to the University of Heidelberg, where he finished his doctoral thesis as a resident in the Department of Anaesthetics and Emergency Medicine in 1975…