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Fritz Jahr (1895-1953) - the Man Who Invented Bioethics. A Preliminary Biography and Bibliography

The paper presents the basic data about the life of Fritz Jahr (1895-1953), the German teacher and theologian who, for the first time in history, in an article from 1927, used the term “bio-ethics” and proposed a concept of a new discipline based upon the “bioethical imperative” – a revision of the Kantian categoric imperative, extended onto animals and plants. While some data, however, about the publications by Fritz Jahr have been known (up to this moment, 18 papers have been detected), the biographical background of Jahr was completely unexplored as yet. The present paper briefly investigates also the chronology of the discovery of Jahr’s work about 1997, shifting the date and the location of the conception of bioethics for about half a century back and from one continent (Nord America) to the other (Europe).

Fritz Jahr; history of bioethics; Europe

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