Beate Schücking
| Beate Schücking | |
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| 968th President of Leipzig University | |
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Assumed office March 1, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Franz Häuser |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Beate A. Schücking January 14, 1956 Kassel, Hesse, Germany |
| Alma mater |
University of Ulm Paris Descartes University |
| Profession | Doctor, Scientist, University administrator |
Beate A. Schücking, (born January 14, 1956) M.D, PhD. is the 968th President of Leipzig University and Professor of Health Science and Psychosocial Medicine. She is the author of numerous articles and papers on aspects of scientific research and professional education. Schücking is also the first woman to become Leipzig University President since its founding in 1409.
Schücking was born in Kassel, and raised in rural Hesse, where her family lived in the medieval castle of Neuenstein, near Bad Hersfeld. She is the daughter of Ursula Schücking (née von Hamm) and Hermann-Reyner Schücking. Her paternal grandfather, Walther Schücking was a German liberal politician, professor of international law and the first German judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague from 1930-1935. Her great-grandfather was the German novelist Levin Schücking (1814–1883).
Schücking attended Medical School in Ulm, received her degree as an MD in 1981, and her PhD magna cum laude in Hematology in the same year from the University of Ulm. She went on to earn her diploma as assistant étrangère at the University of Paris René Descartes in 1980. As a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg (1981-1989) she specialized in Internal Medicine, Psychosocial Medicine and Family Medicine. From 1989 to 1995 she served as professor of medicine and health science at the University of Applied Science in Munich. In addition Dr. Schücking was the founding director of the Maternal and Child Health research unit at Osnabrück University, where she was a member of the faculty for 15 years serving as both a teacher in health science and a researcher in obstetrics and health, guiding the transformation from midwifery as an apprenticeship-based profession into an academic field with a multidisciplinary research focus. Several of her former doctoral students are among the first Professors of Midwifery in Germany. While in Osnabrück, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Health Science, Psychology and Cognitive Science in 2000, and Vice-President for Research and Doctoral Studies in 2004.
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