Adolph Erlenmeyer
Johann Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer (born July 11, 1822 in Wiesbaden , † August 9, 1877 in Bendorf ) was a German psychiatrist .
family
Erlenmeyer was the son of the parish priest and dean Dr. Friedrich Erlenmeyer. His brother was the chemist Emil Erlenmeyer and his son the psychiatrist Albrecht Erlenmeyer .
Life
Adolph Erlenmeyer studied in Marburg and Bonn . After receiving his doctorate in Berlin , he worked from 1844 to 1846 as an assistant to the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi in Siegburg . Here he wrote his dissertation De urina maniacorum . Following this activity, he went on a longer educational trip and visited all the larger asylums. In Prague he was trained by Josef Gottfried von Riedel and took part in brain sections with Vincent Alexander Bochdalek . In 1854 he was a co-founder of the German Society for Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology and took over the editing of the associated corporate bodies. He settled in Bendorf as a general practitioner and established an ophthalmological institute there. Erlenmeyer also established an asylum for brain and nervous patients in 1848 , which he expanded in 1866 with a neurological department and in 1867 with an agricultural department (Albrechtshöhe). As a Jacobi student, he was a supporter of the somatic direction and advocated the close unity of psychiatry and neurology .
In 1844, Adolph Erlenmeyer was one of the founders of the Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn, the later Corps Teutonia Bonn , of which he was an honorary member. In 1853 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .
Works
- Adult Brain Atrophy , 1852
- How to treat soul disorders in their beginning , 1860 (award-winning and translated into seven languages)
- The Subcutaneous Injections of Medicines , 1866
- The embolism of the cerebral arias , 1867
- The Luetic Psychoses , 1876
- The Principles of Epilepsy Treatment , 1886
literature
- Theodor Kirchhoff : German insane doctors: individual images of their life and work . Volume 1., Springer, Berlin 1921, p. 43.
- Werner Leibbrand: Erlenmeyer, Johann Adolph Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 549 ( digitized version ).
- Max Mechow: Well-known CCers . Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, p. 48.
- Julius Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, 1901, p. 468 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Founding of the Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn , website “Historisches Archiv der Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn from 1844”, accessed on April 11, 2016.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 17 , 1
- ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erlenmeyer, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erlenmeyer, Johann Adolph Albrecht (full name); Erlenmeyer, Adolf Albrecht; Erlenmeyer, Adolf Albrecht; Erlenmeyer, Adolphus Albertus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1877 |
| Place of death | Bendorf |