Adolf Wachsmuth
Klaus Heinrich Adolf Wachsmuth (born May 10, 1827 in Neuhaus / Elbe , † April 13, 1865 in Dorpat ) was a German doctor.
Life
Wachsmuth was the son of the cantor and teacher Otto Wachsmuth (1795–1864) and his wife Auguste Amalie (1806–1848). He studied medicine from 1846 to 1849 at the University of Göttingen . He received his doctorate on August 15, 1849 in Göttingen . This was followed by a study visit to Berlin . In the autumn of 1850, Wachsmuth returned to Göttingen, where he held an assistant position to Conrad Heinrich Fuchs . In 1852 he completed his habilitation and, after Fuchs' death, headed the medical clinic from 1855 to 1856. His successor was Karl Ewald Hasse . Wachsmuth, on the other hand, began to occupy himself with psychiatry , a discipline for which there was no clinic in Göttingen. Efforts to establish such a facility soon came to nothing, so that in 1860, Wachsmuth accepted an offer at the University of Dorpat . There he succeeded Paul Uhle , who had moved to Jena. In 1865, Wachsmuth died of tuberculosis .
The main work of Wachsmuth is the monograph General Pathology of the Soul , in which he advocates the extension of pathological concepts to the psyche. He divides mental illnesses into illnesses of the mind, hallucinations, insanity and mental weaknesses.
Adolf Wachsmuth married Bertha Murray (1838–1906) in 1860. The couple had a son.
Publications
- The cholera in Gieboldehausen in July u. August 1850: In addition to a few later. Notes about cholera in Eisdorf u. in the Göttingen Acad. Hospitals and the treatment of cholera in general. 1851. (Dissertation, full text in the Google book search)
- On the theory of the so-called consonant auscultation phenomena. 1856. doi: 10.1007 / bf01936234
- General pathology of the soul. Meidinger, Frankfurt a. M., 1859. ( digitized version )
- Hay and enterotomy. 1862. doi: 10.1007 / bf01878249
- A case of diabetes insipidus , 1863. doi: 10.1007 / BF01930972
- About progressive bulb paralysis (Bulbus medullae) and the diplegia facialis. EJ Karow, Dorpat 1864. ( full text in the Google book search)
literature
- Ludwig Stieda : Wachsmuth, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 421-423.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Genealogical representation
- ^ Edward Shorter : A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry . Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-517668-1 . P. 234
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wachsmuth, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wachsmut, Klaus Heinrich Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuhaus / Elbe |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1865 |
| Place of death | Dorpat |