- Prof. Qiu's family, Tongji Medical College, China
Dear Teacher Chen and Alumni,
In response to your recent request for a book on Prof. Qiu’s memories, I have selected a few pictures taken from our latest tour in Germany approximately three-months ago after an academic meeting at Basel, Switzerland. We were lucky enough to reach Munich in the last night of this year’s Oktoberfest (Bavaria’s beer festival), so the two photos were taken during the evening time.
The pictures were labeled by the names of the locations, including Lindau on the bank of the lovingly Lake Constance that separates Swiss and Germany; Bavaria (Bayern)’s small towns Fussen where the famous Neuschwanstein castle located and Eisenberg, as well as the Nuremberg. All those places were in the distance of two to three hours train-ride to Munich, the relative close places on America or China’s standard.One photo was for Dresden which was taken through the train’s window when we were traveling from Prague to Berlin. Nuremberg and Dresden, the two famous medieval towns, were basically destroyed by Allied’s most catastrophic bombing attacks during the war, but impressively both of cities were rebuilt to their historical atmospheres. As you might be aware, Nuremberg was Hitler’s ideological base and after war also served as a place to trial the WWII criminals. You would also appreciate a variety of pictures covering Berlin and its suburban Potsdam.
I am not sure that these photos in the attachment would satisfy the detail requirement you have designed for the book, but I am pretty confident that they indeed represent faithfully the landscape and culture environments where Qiu spent his youth years there. We went through our Tongji years when Qiu and his beautiful German wife’s walk was a daily theme on the campus, looking back their life-long’s love story was initiated in these gorgeous mountainous areas embedded in the Germany’s alps.
We have been taught an enormously amount of stories associated with Germany, first through instructors or classmates within the campus and subsequently from our mentors who had been trained in Germany. Munich was one of the powerhouses of Germany’s medical research in the era before Hitler’s war. It is still a quite active center for modern medicine in the Europe. In a reference note, Johns Hopkins was the first medical school in the United Sates that mimics the German system in which teaching and research were combined on the line of medical education. Graduating with honors from Munich University Medical School and subsequent establishing his own practice was simply enough to speak for Qiu’s outstanding quality among his peers in a very exclusive foreign land.
Qiu had all of the reasons to stay in Germany to raise a family and enjoy his comfortable life as a practicing surgeon. It would not be so exaggerating for us to say that modern China’s surgical subspecialty is greatly benefit from Qiu’s decision to bring the whole family home. His talent and his dedicated life-long service through Tongji had not only introduced the western medical concepts but also transformed medical practice in the ancient China.
Sincerely,
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Sent: 31 December 2008 01:01
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Subject: [tjmcoaapost] 求助 编印《裘法祖》画册需补拍的照片
各位新年好,因为比较紧急与德国有关人员联系不上,医学院希望在欧洲的校友帮助.详情如下,如有认识在欧洲的朋友也请转告。谢谢
亲爱的校友:
为缅怀裘法祖院士, 我们将编辑出版《人民医学家裘法祖》画传，有以下照片需补拍，烦劳校友百忙中抽时间帮助我们拍摄，并请2009年元月10日前发回学校。
编印《裘法祖》画册需补拍的照片
1、 慕尼黑大学医学院外景
2、 住Walther街 第一次住房街景
3、 住Häberl街 第二次住房街景
4、 住Frauenlab街 第三次住房街景
对面是慕尼黑大学医学院第三医院（泌尿外科、皮肤科
5、 慕尼黑十月啤酒节广场
6、 市立Schwabing医院外景
7、 柏林、Nürnberg、Leipzig、Dresden四个城市 外景
8、 慕尼黑附近的小城 Bad Tölz
主持外科日常工作 Schwabing医院的分院 医院外景
9、 Heidelberg大学 外景
10、 Bad Tölz市立医院 外景
11、 意大利那不勒斯Aaples 附近的小城 Aversa 外景
12、 慕尼黑Lsar河 风景
华中科技大学同济医学院
二〇〇八年十二月十九日
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