Otto Gerhard Prokop (* 29 September 1921 in sank is a Austrian Anatom and forensic pathologist.

Life

In the three decades of its working as scientists and university teachers Prokop of the German court medicine returned Democratic Republic (GDR) far over its effect place of the earlier German ones that acknowledgment, which this branch of the medical science to center of the 1930er had possessed years abroad Germany and.

After its Abitur at the state High School of Salzburg Prokop, son of a physician, in the year 1940 to Vienna, took up the medicine study had it however after two terms because of summoning to the German armed forces to interrupt. After its dismissal from American shank remained Prokop in Germany and continued its study at the end of of 1945 in Bonn and locked it 1948 with the state examination and the graduation work "“over murder with Tierhaaren"”. 1953 it habilitierte itself with the writing "“experimental investigations over the sensitization to antigens of group of bloods"”. Afterwards it was further in Bonn active and held as a private lecturer in the context of the judicial medicine among other things lectures on "“the groups of bloods of humans"” and "“natural science and Okkultismus"”. At the end of of 1956 followed Prokop a call to the chair in east Berlin, where he extremely successfully worked from 1 February 1957 by 31 August 1987 as a director of the institute for judicial medicine of the Humboldt university to Berlin. Successor in its office became its pupil of many years Gunther Geserick (* 1938).

With the appointment of Prokop ended the Interregnum for many years, which had resulted from the division of Berlin and the establishment of two German states. By its working as chair owners and directors/conductors Ostberliner of the institute attained the forensische medicine rapidly national and international acknowledgment. Besides Prokop took the tasks than Kommissari director of the institute for judicial medicine and Kriminalistik in Leipzig was occasional. To its extensive training tasks among other things lectures for students of the medicine, dental medicine, Kriminalistik and jurisprudence, furthermore the training of laboratory physicians, chemists as well as medical, medical-technical and clinical-chemical personnel with emphasis toxicological analysis belonged and to the far training of pathology specialist candidates. In the three decades of its working Prokop completely exerted not only relevant influence on the systematic development of the judicial medicine despite the division in that Germany but also left its own scientific school. Under its line habilitierten themselves over 25 physicians; many of them became even chair owners, lecturers and upper physicians in institutes of Germany and the foreign country.

Scientific work

From Prokops scientific work is here estimated at home and abroad and standard works appeared in several editions

• "“Text book of the judicial medicine"” (and/or "“Forensi medicine"”; 1960),
• "“Picture Atlas of the judicial medicine"” (1963),
• "“Text book of the human blood and groups of serums"” (1963),
• "“Genetics of hereditary syndromes and deformations"” (and/or "“dictionary for the genetic family consultation"”; 1974) and
• "“Vademecum court medicine"” (1990)

picked out. Its past scientific complete work covers over 600 original work and nearly 500 larger lectures; these can be arranged in the following three Schwerpunkttehmen:

• Pathological anatomy and death by force.
• Forensi Serologie, genetics and trace customer.
• Physician-legal questions and scientific statements against unscientific welfare methods.

Straight one in latter point led and leads Prokop in numerous work and lectures a strictly scientifically founded fight against Okkultismus and paramedizinische practices. In the areas of the forensischen Serologie, genetics and trace customer Prokop has fundamental realizations as initiator and an experienced promoter of the experimental work over the postmortale emergence of prussic acid, to the coup Contre coup mechanism (simplified: Injuries by shock waves), for time of death estimation, to death in the water, supplied to supravitalen reaction, to the condition of firing wounds and to the group of materials of the Protectinen.

Prokop was a chairman of the specialist test commission and belonged to the advice for medical science with the Minister for health service of the GDR. to 1967 it belonged to the initial members of the society of the judicial medicine of the GDR and was also their chairman. It was and is co-editor of the "“magazine for right medicine"”, member of the Academy of Sciences to Berlin, the German academy of the natural scientists Leopoldina, honour doctor and honour professor of the Universities of Leipzig, Szeged and Tokyo, as well as honour member or corresponding member in over 20 in and foreign specialized companies.

See also

• Hans Hetzel

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