Adolf Heinrich Dannemann

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Adolf Heinrich Dannemann (born May 17, 1867 in Bremen ; † June 3, 1932 in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) ) was a German psychiatrist and curative educator .

life and work

Dannemann's habilitation thesis

Adolf Dannemann came from an old sailor family. After graduating from high school, Dannemann first studied literature and history in Heidelberg and Berlin. Soon he changed the field of study and turned to human medicine. He studied first in Erlangen, then in Kiel, where he passed the state examination in 1891. He then worked briefly as a country doctor, then for three years as a ship's doctor and a few years as an assistant doctor a. a. in the St. Jürgen Hospital for the mentally ill in Bremen. From 1896 to 1913 Dannemann worked as a senior physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic of the University of Giessen . In Gießen he completed his habilitation in 1898 with a thesis on the psychiatric clinic in Gießen. In 1903, Dannemann received a teaching position for forensic psychiatry at the University of Giessen. Four years later he was appointed associate professor. Dannemann was director of the Philippshospital Riedstadt nursing and sanatorium in Goddelau for two years . In 1913 he was appointed director of the Heppenheim sanatorium and nursing home , which he led until his death.

For many years Dannemann was managing director of the Hessian Association for Forensic Medicine and was involved in the aid association for the mentally ill in Hesse . In addition, he was the initiator and co-editor of the publication Encyclopaedic Handbook of Curative Education , which was highly valued at the time (and still is today) , “all the medicine necessary for auxiliary school and institutional educators. and psychiatr. Knowledge of the theory and practice of curative education at that time should bring “The work first appeared in 1911 (with over 2,000 columns) and in 1934 in the second edition (with over 3350 columns). The second edition of the manual contains 535 articles by Dannemann.

Publications (selection)

  • The psychiatric clinic in Giessen. A contribution to practical psychiatry. Berlin 1899.
  • Psychiatry and hygiene in the educational institutions. Instructions for pastors, teachers and educators. Hamburg 1907.
  • as editors with Georg Gnerlich, August Hentze, E. Meltzer , H. Schoberl, Erich Stern : Enzyklopädisches Handbuch der Heilpädagogik. 2 volumes, Halle an der Saale 1934.

literature

  • Ewald Meltzer: Heinrich Adolf Dannemann †. In: Psychiatrically Neurological Weekly. 1932, pp. 349-352.
  • Robert Sommer: Heinrich Adolf Dannemann 1867–1932. In: Journal of Mental Hygiene. 1932, pp. 129-133.
  • Ewald Meltzer: Dannemann, Heinrich Adolf. In: Encyclopedic Handbook of Curative Education. 1934, col. 3351-3353.
  • Schmeel: Prof. Dr. Adolf Dannemann in memory. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 97, 1932, pp. 465-467, doi : 10.1007 / BF01815557 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meltzer 1934, Col. 3352
personal data
SURNAME Dannemann, Adolf Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and curative teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1932
Place of death Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)