Background
Geus, Armin was born on October 4, 1937 in Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany. Son of Ludwig and Elisabeth (Schmidt) Geus.
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Armin Geus
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Education
In 1964, he obtained his PhD for a work on the gregarinasina of Central European arthropods.
Career
Geus received his academic education in zoology with a specialisation in parasitology. In 1973, he became professor for history of medicine at the University of Marburg, a post he held until his retirement. In 1976, Geus founded the Basilisken-Presse, a publishing house specialized in the history of science, particularly the history of biology.
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. Geus attests Muhammad a "paranoid-hallucinatory schizophrenia with defined delusional imaginings and characteristic sensual deceptions".
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. 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, after Geus' defence team had invoked the academic freedom guaranteed by the German constitution. In September 2012, the civil rights organisation Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa had brought the case as an attempt at "silencing" critical scholars to an OSCE human rights conference at Warsaw.
Membership
Member Deutsche Gesellschafr für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie(president).
