Kornelia Grundmann (b. 1951) studied biology, biochemistry and medicine at the Free University of Berlin and worked for close to ten years in biomedical research. Subsequently she moved to Marburg and began research in the history of medicine focusing on the 19th and 20th century (anatomy, bacteriology and psychiatry). In particular, she has studied the development of the medical faculty of Marburg during the Third Reich and the postwar period.

Dr Grundmann is curator of the Behring Archives at the Behring Library for History and Ethics of Medicine and the Anatomical Museum of the Phillips University, Marburg, Germany.