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The textbook “Hepatology. Principles and Practice” by Erwin Kuntz and Hans-Dieter Kuntz will undoubtedly become an international landmark. It reflects the scholarship, encyclopedic knowledge of the
authors and the outstanding craftsmanship of the publishers. Professor Erwin Kuntz’s stature was not
only well established in Germany and the rest of Europe but his fame had crossed the Atlantic and I have
known of him for many years. I also had the privilege of getting acquainted with him personally at an international meeting on phospholipids in Cologne in 1989 where I had the pleasure of enjoying both his
intellectual and his broad humanistic qualities. The book is not only an unusual combination of an extremely thorough textbook of all aspects of hepatology, including important pathogenic mechanisms and their clinical application, but it also has a very didactic approach which effectively highlights most points while not neglecting those details the academician or practitioner may want to find for needed clarification.
It synthesizes more than 30 years of practical experience in clinical hepatology. Accordingly, it
can be used as a teaching manual for students, postgraduate clinicians and practitioners, as a textbook
for internists, gastroenterologists and hepatologists, as well as a reference book for teachers, scientists and
authors. The original text has been revised and updated to 2000/2001. The bibliography now consists of
about 7,300 papers and the number of colored figures has been increased to 380. It is a distillate of hundreds of personal publications and presentations and thousands of literature references of classic and contemporary scholars.
