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==Life==

==Life==

The son of a diplomatic family, he grew up in [[Wikipedia:Madrid|Madrid]] and moved to [[Wikipedia:Berlin|Berlin]] in 1940. From 1945 to 1948 he studied medicine at the [[Wikipedia:University of Tübingen|University of Tübingen]], where he received his doctorate. There he founded an anthroposophical student group and an anthroposophical student union and dormitory, the Fichte House.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Schattauer| isbn = 978-3-7945-2947-6| pages = 271–| last = Matthiessen| first = Peter| title = Rudolf Steiner - Seine Bedeutung für Wissenschaft und Leben heute| chapter = Der Hochschulgedanke Rudolf Steiners und die Universität Witten/Herdecke| date = 2014|trans-chapter=Rudolf Steiner's idea of higher education and the University of Witten/Herdecke|trans-title=Rudolf Steiner - His Significance for Science and Life Today}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal| issn = 1437-1898| language = de| last = Föller-Mancini| first = Axel| title = Erwachen an den Problemen der anderen. Interview mit Rainer Burkhardt| journal = info3| date = March 2004|url=|volume=|pages=|via=|trans-title=Awakening on the problems of others. Interview with Rainer Burkhardt}}</ref> In 1953 he became an assistant at the Nervenklinik of the University of Tübingen. From 1963 to 1968 he was neurological senior physician under Duus at the Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt am Main. During this time he wrote a free postdoctoral thesis on the non-Euclidean visual space of man,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book| publisher = Thieme| language = de| last = Kienle| first = Gerhard| title = Die optischen Wahrnehmungsstörungen und die nichteuklidische Struktur des Sehraumes| date = 1968|trans-title=The optical perceptual disorders and the non-Euclidean structure of the visual space.}}</ref> the question of which, according to Bernardo J. Gut, was inspired by Rudolf Steiner's recommendation that non-Euclidean geometry be applied to biological problems. In 1968 he participated in the laying of the foundation stone of the [[Herdecke Community Hospital]], which was inaugurated in 1969. He was concerned with nursing as a personal approach to people, which led to the founding of a nursing school at the Herdecke Community Hospital, now the [[Dörthe Krause Institute]].<blockquote>

The son of a diplomatic family, he grew up in [[Wikipedia:Madrid|Madrid]] and moved to [[Wikipedia:Berlin|Berlin]] in 1940. From 1945 to 1948 he studied medicine at the [[Wikipedia:University of Tübingen|University of Tübingen]], where he received his doctorate. There he founded an anthroposophical student group and an anthroposophical student union and dormitory, the Fichte House.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Schattauer| isbn = 978-3-7945-2947-6| pages = 271–| last = Matthiessen| first = Peter| title = Rudolf Steiner - Seine Bedeutung für Wissenschaft und Leben heute| chapter = Der Hochschulgedanke Rudolf Steiners und die Universität Witten/Herdecke| date = 2014|trans-chapter=Rudolf Steiner's idea of higher education and the University of Witten/Herdecke|trans-title=Rudolf Steiner - His Significance for Science and Life Today}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal| issn = 1437-1898| language = de| last = Föller-Mancini| first = Axel| title = Erwachen an den Problemen der anderen. Interview mit Rainer Burkhardt| journal = info3| date = March 2004|url=|volume=|pages=|via=|trans-title=Awakening on the problems of others. Interview with Rainer Burkhardt}}</ref> In 1953 he became an assistant at the Nervenklinik of the University of Tübingen. From 1963 to 1968 he was neurological senior physician under Duus at the Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt am Main. During this time he wrote a free postdoctoral thesis on the non-Euclidean visual space of man,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book| publisher = Thieme| language = de| last = Kienle| first = Gerhard| title = Die optischen Wahrnehmungsstörungen und die nichteuklidische Struktur des Sehraumes| date = 1968|trans-title=The optical perceptual disorders and the non-Euclidean structure of the visual space.}}</ref> the question of which, according to Bernardo J. Gut, was inspired by Rudolf Steiner's recommendation that non-Euclidean geometry be applied to biological problems. In 1968 he participated in the laying of the foundation stone of the [[Herdecke Community Hospital]], which was inaugurated in 1969. He was concerned with nursing as a personal approach to people, which led to the founding of a nursing school at the Herdecke Community Hospital, now the [[Dörthe Krause Institute]].<blockquote>

All work in the hospital serves to help the sick and suffering person. The design of this work depends on how deeply one is able to penetrate the understanding of illness and health. If illness is understood as an impairment of the sick person and the healing tendency as the struggle of individuality for self-realization, the guiding principle of medical and nursing action results from this: Support the sick person in realizing his individual possibilities and in the confrontation with his sick body, his fate and the environment, to invest new forms of realization. (Gerhard Kienle: Preamble of the Herdecke Community Hospital, 1975)</blockquote>In the 1970s, he campaigned for the legal anchoring and economic reimbursability of homeopathic, naturopathic, and anthroposophic medicine in the German health care system. He questioned the claim to absoluteness of the controlled randomized study as proof of efficacy and placed a focus on the individual knowledge of the treating physician.<ref name=":0" /> In his role as scientific expert of the Pharmaceutical Committee of the German Parliament, he was largely responsible for the methodologically pluralistic version of the Pharmaceutical Law of 1976.

All work in the hospital serves to help the sick and suffering person. The design of this work depends on how deeply one is able to penetrate the understanding of illness and health. If illness is understood as an impairment of the sick person and the healing tendency as the struggle of individuality for self-realization, the guiding principle of medical and nursing action results from this: Support the sick person in realizing his individual possibilities and in the confrontation with his sick body, his fate and the environment, to invest new forms of realization. (Gerhard Kienle: Preamble of the Herdecke Community Hospital, 1975)</blockquote>In the 1970s, he campaigned for the legal anchoring and economic reimbursability of [[Homeopathy|homeopathic]], [[Natural medicine|naturopathic]], and [[anthroposophic medicine]] in the German health care system. He questioned the claim to absoluteness of the controlled randomized study as proof of efficacy and placed a focus on the individual knowledge of the treating physician.<ref name=":0" /> In his role as scientific expert of the Pharmaceutical Committee of the German Parliament, he was largely responsible for the methodologically pluralistic version of the Pharmaceutical Law of 1976.

In 1982, he was a key co-founder of the [[Witten/Herdecke University|University of Witten/Herdecke]], the first private university in the Federal Republic of Germany. Its founding was preceded by various networking efforts with international scientists. On September 24, 1973, Gerhard Kienle's association with [[Karl-Ernst Schäfer]] led to a symposium entitled "[[Man-centered Physiological Science and Medicine]]". The lectures were published in the volumes "Toward a man-centered science" (1977)<ref name=":12">{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Pub. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-069-1| volume = 1| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl E| last2 = Hensel| first2 = Herbert| last3 = Brady| first3 = Ronald| title = Toward a man-centered medical science| location = New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1977}} "A portion of the material in this book was presented at the meeting man-centered physiological science and medicine held in Herdecke, Germany, Gemeinnuetziges Krankenhaus, September 24-28, 1973."</ref>, "Basis of an Individual Physiology" (1979)<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Publ. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-106-3| volume = 2| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl Ernst| last2 = Hildebrandt| first2 = Gunther| last3 = Macbeth| first3 = Norman| title = Basis of an Individual Physiology| location = Mount Kisco New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1979}}</ref> and "Individuation Process and Biographical Aspects of Disease" (1979)<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Publ. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-117-9| volume = 3| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl Ernst| last2 = Stave| first2 = Uwe| last3 = Blankenburg| first3 = Wolfgang| title = Individuation Process and Biographical Aspects of Disease| location = Mount Kisco New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1979}}</ref>.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Verlag am Goetheanum| isbn = 978-3-7235-1165-7| volume = 1| language = de| last = Selg| first = Peter| title = Gerhard Kienle - Leben und Werk| location = Dornach| date = 2003}}</ref>

In 1982, he was a key co-founder of the [[Witten/Herdecke University|University of Witten/Herdecke]], the first private university in the Federal Republic of Germany. Its founding was preceded by various networking efforts with international scientists. On September 24, 1973, Gerhard Kienle's association with [[Karl-Ernst Schäfer]] led to a symposium entitled "[[Man-centered Physiological Science and Medicine]]". The lectures were published in the volumes "Toward a man-centered science" (1977)<ref name=":12">{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Pub. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-069-1| volume = 1| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl E| last2 = Hensel| first2 = Herbert| last3 = Brady| first3 = Ronald| title = Toward a man-centered medical science| location = New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1977}} "A portion of the material in this book was presented at the meeting man-centered physiological science and medicine held in Herdecke, Germany, Gemeinnuetziges Krankenhaus, September 24-28, 1973."</ref>, "Basis of an Individual Physiology" (1979)<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Publ. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-106-3| volume = 2| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl Ernst| last2 = Hildebrandt| first2 = Gunther| last3 = Macbeth| first3 = Norman| title = Basis of an Individual Physiology| location = Mount Kisco New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1979}}</ref> and "Individuation Process and Biographical Aspects of Disease" (1979)<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Futura Publ. Co.| isbn = 978-0-87993-117-9| volume = 3| language = English| last1 = Schaefer| first1 = Karl Ernst| last2 = Stave| first2 = Uwe| last3 = Blankenburg| first3 = Wolfgang| title = Individuation Process and Biographical Aspects of Disease| location = Mount Kisco New York| series = New Image of Man and Medicine| date = 1979}}</ref>.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Verlag am Goetheanum| isbn = 978-3-7235-1165-7| volume = 1| language = de| last = Selg| first = Peter| title = Gerhard Kienle - Leben und Werk| location = Dornach| date = 2003}}</ref>