Albert Eulenburg

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Albert Eulenburg

Albert Eulenburg (born August 10, 1840 in Berlin ; † July 3, 1917 there ) was a German doctor and sexologist .

Life

He was born the son of the Jewish doctor Michael Moritz Eulenburg and his second wife Auguste. His younger brother Ernst later became a well-known music publisher . After the grandfather's death, the family converted to the Protestant faith in 1847.

Albert Eulenburg studied in Berlin, Bern and Zurich . His teachers included Johannes Peter Müller , Ludwig Traube and Albrecht von Graefe . After receiving his doctorate on May 31, 1861, Eulenburg became an assistant doctor. He took part as a doctor in the German War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War 1870–71. After completing his habilitation , he founded a private clinic for internal medicine with Paul Guttmann . In 1863 the University of Greifswald appointed him full professor of pharmacology . Eulenburg gave up the position in 1882 and returned to Berlin as an associate professor of neurology . He set up a polyclinic for nervous diseases here .

Albert Eulenburg died in Berlin in 1917 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling carried out by the National Socialists on the cemetery in 1938/1939, Eulenburg's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

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Eulenburg published a number of important papers in the field of the physiology of nervous diseases and medical sexual science, of which he is considered a co-founder. His work, edited with Guttmann, The Pathology of the Sympathetic System on a Physiological Basis , won the Astley Cooper Prize in 1877 . Because of a formal error (two authors), the prize money was never paid out.

Eulenburg's Real Encyclopedia of the Entire Medicine - the 3rd edition appeared between 1894 and 1901 in 26 volumes - is considered one of the medical standard works of its time and still provides information about the state of medicine at that time.

Eulenburg was also the first to describe a rare congenital muscle disease. His name is associated with this disease as an eponym ( Paramyotonia congenita Eulenburg ).

Scientifically, Eulenburg dealt among other things, partly with reference to Richard von Krafft-Ebing , with the topics of sadism and masochism .

In 1913 Eulenburg founded the Medical Society for Sexology and Eugenics together with Magnus Hirschfeld and Iwan Bloch and became its first president. From 1914 he re-published the magazine for sexology together with Iwan Bloch . A journal with this name had already been published by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1908, initially only with 12 issues and then absorbed in the journal Sexual -problem of the doctor and sex researcher Max Marcuse .

Fonts (selection)

  • The pathology of the sympathetic nerve on a physiological basis (with P. Guttmann). A. Hirschfeld, Berlin 1873
  • Textbook of Nervous Diseases , Berlin
    • 1st part, 2nd completely revised and expanded edition digitized
  • as publisher: Real Encyclopedia of the Entire Medicine. 15 volumes. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1880–1883; 2nd edition Vienna / Leipzig 1885–1893.
  • About a familial form of congenital paramyotonia that can be traced back through six generations . Neurologisches Centralblatt 12, 1886, pp. 265-272
  • Sexual neuropathy. Genital neuroses and neuropsychoses in men and women . Vogel, Leipzig 1895
  • The Marquis de Sade . Lecture given at the Psychological Association in Berlin . HR Dohrn, Dresden 1901 (first in the future on March 25, 1899)
  • Iwan Bloch: Contributions to the aetiology of psychopathia sexualis. 2 parts. Preface by Albert Eulenburg. HR Dohrn, Dresden 1902; Reprint Kessinger Publishing , Whitefish (Montana) 2010 ISBN 9781160044509
  • Sadism and masochism . JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1902 (= borderline questions of the nervous and mental life, 19)
  • Child and youth suicides . Marhold, Halle (Saale) 1914 (= collection of informal treatises from the field of nervous and mental diseases, 10.6)
  • Morality and sexuality. Sexual ethical forays into the field of modern philosophy and ethics . Marcus & Weber, Bonn 1916

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 301, 467.

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personal data
SURNAME Eulenburg, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1917
Place of death Berlin