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Tribute to Professor Franz Bolck
Exp Toxic Pathol 1998; 50: 269-270 Gustav Fischer Verlag lena
Tribute to Professor Franz Bolck It is an honour for me to have had the opportunity to work closely over many years with a well-respected colleague like Professor FRANZ BOLCK who has the highest levels of dedication, scientific knowledge, integrity and personal accomplishment. For much of the time I have known him, we have worked together on this journal and in all these years, I have always found Professor BOLCK to be a sympathetic listener and valued adviser, however difficult the question. His vast experience in many and varied areas of science and his extensive general knowledge have invariably provided him with solutions to problems and have contributed greatly to his success as a scientist and teacher. It has been left to Professor WOLFGANG KLINGER to describe Professor BOLCK'S personality as I can think of no better person to do him justice. I can only agree wholeheartedly with what he has written since one really cannot speak too highly of Professor BOLCK. In the years I have known him, I have come to respect him as a humanitarian with a vast fund of all-round knowledge who is always willing to pass this knowledge on to others. On behalf of all those who have the pleasure of knowing Professor BOLCK, I would like to congratulate him on his 80th birthday and wish him good health and happiness in the years to come. Without his dedication and unstinting work, Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology would certainly not be the highly regarded international journal it is today. Ulrich Mohr Co-Executive Editor, Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology
Dedicated to Prof. em. Dr. Dres. h. c. FRANZ L. BOLeK on the occasion of his 80th birthday on September IS, 1998, are the following papers from all parts of the world to honour the founder of this journal. He became a professor of pathology and director of the Institute of Pathology in Jena, following in the footsteps of famous representatives of this basic discipline of medicine such as ROBERT RbsSLE, and finally WALTER FISCHER, who was my teacher when I was a student in the mid-fifties. The young pathologist and new director of the institute, coming from Leipzig, was a thorough but nevertheless benevolent and "mild" examiner in 1956. Prof. BOLCK, from the very beginning of his work in Jena, was an outstanding personality: the brilliant rhetoric in his lectures, courses and demonstrations for students and colleagues became famous. He reorganized the structure of his institute, he installed histochemistry, electron microscopy, isotope techniques etc. and during his directorship the Institute of Pathology very quickly became a leading institution open to all modern developments in different methods, not only morphological ones, with a steadily increasing number of scientists, not only physicians but also biologists, physicists and chemists. Thus he emphasized that he represented "Pathology" in its comprehensive importance and pretension, not only Pathological Anatomy. Very soon Prof. BOLCK also became active in the organization and politics of the Medical Faculty, serving as a dean, and then as a vice-chancellor (prorector) for the research of the whole university and finally he was elected Rector Magnificus. In this outstanding, highly demanding and in many respects difficult position he served our university from January 9, 1968, till October 3, 1983, and he left this position as a professor emeritus - convinced that he had taken all possible care that our Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as a whole and especially his institute should continue to flourish . His institute was well equipped and productive in several fields of basic research. In all these years of "political" involvement he never gave up his position as head of his institute, working there late in the evenings and especially at weekends - including e.g. Christmas Eve. During these years densely packed with activities and responsibilities he Exp Toxic Pathol 50 (1998) 4-6
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Tribute to Professor Franz Bolck It is an honour for me to have had the opportunity to work closely over many years with a well-respected colleague like Professor FRANZ BOLCK who has the highest levels of dedication, scientific knowledge, integrity and personal accomplishment. For much of the time I have known him, we have worked together on this journal and in all these years, I have always found Professor BOLCK to be a sympathetic listener and valued adviser, however difficult the question. His vast experience in many and varied areas of science and his extensive general knowledge have invariably provided him with solutions to problems and have contributed greatly to his success as a scientist and teacher. It has been left to Professor WOLFGANG KLINGER to describe Professor BOLCK'S personality as I can think of no better person to do him justice. I can only agree wholeheartedly with what he has written since one really cannot speak too highly of Professor BOLCK. In the years I have known him, I have come to respect him as a humanitarian with a vast fund of all-round knowledge who is always willing to pass this knowledge on to others. On behalf of all those who have the pleasure of knowing Professor BOLCK, I would like to congratulate him on his 80th birthday and wish him good health and happiness in the years to come. Without his dedication and unstinting work, Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology would certainly not be the highly regarded international journal it is today. Ulrich Mohr Co-Executive Editor, Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology
Dedicated to Prof. em. Dr. Dres. h. c. FRANZ L. BOLeK on the occasion of his 80th birthday on September IS, 1998, are the following papers from all parts of the world to honour the founder of this journal. He became a professor of pathology and director of the Institute of Pathology in Jena, following in the footsteps of famous representatives of this basic discipline of medicine such as ROBERT RbsSLE, and finally WALTER FISCHER, who was my teacher when I was a student in the mid-fifties. The young pathologist and new director of the institute, coming from Leipzig, was a thorough but nevertheless benevolent and "mild" examiner in 1956. Prof. BOLCK, from the very beginning of his work in Jena, was an outstanding personality: the brilliant rhetoric in his lectures, courses and demonstrations for students and colleagues became famous. He reorganized the structure of his institute, he installed histochemistry, electron microscopy, isotope techniques etc. and during his directorship the Institute of Pathology very quickly became a leading institution open to all modern developments in different methods, not only morphological ones, with a steadily increasing number of scientists, not only physicians but also biologists, physicists and chemists. Thus he emphasized that he represented "Pathology" in its comprehensive importance and pretension, not only Pathological Anatomy. Very soon Prof. BOLCK also became active in the organization and politics of the Medical Faculty, serving as a dean, and then as a vice-chancellor (prorector) for the research of the whole university and finally he was elected Rector Magnificus. In this outstanding, highly demanding and in many respects difficult position he served our university from January 9, 1968, till October 3, 1983, and he left this position as a professor emeritus - convinced that he had taken all possible care that our Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as a whole and especially his institute should continue to flourish . His institute was well equipped and productive in several fields of basic research. In all these years of "political" involvement he never gave up his position as head of his institute, working there late in the evenings and especially at weekends - including e.g. Christmas Eve. During these years densely packed with activities and responsibilities he Exp Toxic Pathol 50 (1998) 4-6
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