Milestones of Medical History in Heidelberg
October 1386
Founding of the university by charter of Elector Rupert I, which also mentions a “facultas medicinae”.
1593
The Botanical Garden is established as basis for pharmaceutical studies.
1805-1806
The Polyclinical Institute is opened. For the first time, medical students receive systematic practical training on patients.
1818
The Surgical Hospital is opened.
1858-1871
Herrmann von Helmholtz, Director of the Physiological Institute, engages in research and teaching.
1876-1883
Hospitals in Heidelberg-Bergheim are built.
1899-1900
Beginning of medical studies for women.
1910
The physiologist Albrecht Kossel is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Since the 1920s
Overall planning and construction of hospital buildings and institutes in the University Campus Neuenheimer Feld:
Surgical Hospital in1939, Pediatric Hospital in 1966, Research Institutes in 1974, Head Hospital in 1987.
August 1945
The Department of Medicine resumes teaching.
2001
Establishment of the reform study program Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale (HeiCuMed).
2004
Establishment of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) of Heidelberg in cooperation with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Aid, and the Thorax Clinic in Heidelberg.
Opening of the new Hospital for Internal Medicine.
2006
Completion of the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT), first treatments in 2009.
2007
Heidelberg University elected as German “Elite University.”
2008
Opening of the “Angelika Lautenschläger Children’s Hospital” and beginning of the construction of the Women’s and Dermatology Hospital.
October 2008
Harald zur Hausen, former head of the DKFZ, and member of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
