{{Short description|German medical historian and historian of biology (born 1937)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Armin Geus | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1937 | birth_place = Bad Staffelstein | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | resting_place = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = History of medicine,<br /> history of biology | workplaces = University of Marburg | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | footnotes = | spouse = }}
'''Armin Geus''' ({{IPA|de|ˈgɔʏs|lang}}; born 1937) is a German medical historian and historian of biology.
== Career == Geus received his academic education in zoology with a specialisation in parasitology.<ref name="Marburger UniJournal">[http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/unijournal/8/Biohistoricum ''Das Biohistoricum''], ''Marburger UniJournal'', no. 8, January 2001</ref> In 1964, he obtained his PhD for a work on the gregarinasina of Central European arthropods.<ref>Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: [http://d-nb.info/571984053/about/html ''Die Gregarinen der land- und süßwasserbewohnenden Arthropoden Mitteleuropas''], retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> In 1973, he became professor for history of medicine at the University of Marburg, a post he held until his retirement.<ref>[http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news283985 ''Biohistoricum zieht von Neuburg an der Donau nach Bonn um''], ''Informationsdienst Wissenschaft'', 18 October 2008, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> In 1976, Geus founded the ''Basilisken-Presse'', a publishing house specialized in the history of science, particularly the history of biology.<ref>[https://www.ssl-id.de/basilisken-presse.de/verlagsgeschichte_ ''Verlagsgeschichte''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123142828/https://www.ssl-id.de/basilisken-presse.de/verlagsgeschichte_ |date=November 23, 2012 }}, in ''Basilisken-Presse'', retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> In 1991, he established the ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie'' ("German society for the history and theory of biology"). In 1998, the society was developed into the ''Biohistoricum'', a biology museum with a research archive that is considered the only institution of its kind in Germany.<ref name="Marburger UniJournal"/>
In 2008, Geus published a collection of essays critical of Islam entitled ''Gegen die feige Neutralität'' ("Against coward neutrality") with contributions by a number of German academics and journalists, including Karl Doehring, Ralph Giordano, Michael Miersch and Tilman Nagel.<ref>Armin Geus; Stefan Etzel (eds.): ''Gegen die feige Neutralität: Beiträge zur Islamkritik'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-925347-98-6}}</ref>
In 2011, Geus published his work ''Die Krankheit des Propheten'' ("The sickness of the prophet") which he said examined the pathography of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, from a medical point of view. Geus attests Muhammad a "paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia with defined delusional imaginings and characteristic sensual deceptions".<ref>Armin Geus: ''Die Krankheit des Propheten'', Basilisken-Presse, Marburg an der Lahn 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-941365-15-5}}, pp. 74–75</ref><ref name="Thomas Junker">Thomas Junker: [http://www.thomas-junker-evolution.de/Kreationismus-/-ID/1,000000216860,8,1 ''Rezension von Armin Geus: Die Krankheit des Propheten (2011)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102132609/http://www.thomas-junker-evolution.de/Kreationismus-/-ID/1%2C000000216860%2C8%2C1 |date=January 2, 2013 }}, ''Thomas Junker Website'', 2011, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> The book ranked in the top ten non-fiction list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in June 2011, receiving a number of reviews from colleagues and in the press.<ref name="Thomas Junker"/><ref>[http://hpd.de/node/11816 ''Rezension. Die Krankheit des Propheten''], ''Humanistischer Pressedienst'', 11 August 2011, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref><ref>[http://www.webarchiv-server.de/pin/archiv12/2020120519paz59.htm ''Aus der Feder eines Kranken?''], ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'', 19 May 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> A subsequent lawsuit by the Saudi-financed King Fahd Academy in Bonn with reference to the German blasphemy law was dismissed by the Marburg state prosecutor in October 2010,<ref>[http://www.citizentimes.eu/2012/10/14/etappensieg-fur-meinungsfreiheit/ ''Etappensieg für Meinungsfreiheit. Staatsanwaltschaft Marburg stellt Strafverfahren gegen Medizinhistoriker Prof. Dr. Armin Geus ein''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125120943/http://www.citizentimes.eu/2012/10/14/etappensieg-fur-meinungsfreiheit/ |date=2013-01-25 }}, ''Citizen Times'', 14 October 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref><ref>[http://www.express.de/bonn-nachrichten/staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-fahd-akademie--anzeige-gegen-historiker,16812184,17244026.html ''Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt. Fahd-Akademie: Anzeige gegen Historiker''], ''Express'', 13 September 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref> after Geus' defence team had invoked the academic freedom guaranteed by the German constitution. In September 2012, the anti-Islam organisation Citizens' Movement Pax Europa had brought the case, which it said was an attempt at "silencing" critical scholars, to an OSCE human rights conference at Warsaw.<ref>[http://www.osce.org/odihr/94658 ''Statement by Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa. Freedom of expression – Silencing intellectuals''] (PDF S.7), ''Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe'', 24 September 2012, retrieved 18 January 2013</ref>
== Selected works == * ''Festschrift der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Bayreuth, 1889-1964'', Bayreuth: Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 1964 * ''Krankheit und Kranksein in der Gegenwartskunst'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1985, {{ISBN|3-9800020-9-8}} * ''Johannes Ranke (1836-1916): Physiologe, Anthropologe u. Prähistoriker'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1987, {{ISBN|3-925347-01-1}} * ''Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft: 1890-1990'', Stuttgart: Fischer Verlag, 1990 (co-author), {{ISBN|3-437-30648-0}} * ''Miscellen zur Geschichte der Biologie'', Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1994 (editor), {{ISBN|3-7829-1134-2}} * ''Natur im Druck. Eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte und Technik des Naturselbstdrucks'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1995 (co-author), {{ISBN|3-925347-36-4}} * ''Repräsentationsformen in den biologischen Wissenschaften'', Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1999 (editor), {{ISBN|3-86135-383-0}} * ''Evolution durch Kooperation und Integration: zur Entstehung der Endosymbiosetheorie in der Zellbiologie'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2007, {{ISBN|978-3-925347-83-2}} * ''Gegen die feige Neutralität: Beiträge zur Islamkritik'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2008 (co-editor), {{ISBN|978-3-925347-98-6}} * ''Die Krankheit des Propheten'', Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-941365-15-5}}
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