Albrecht Erlenmeyer

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Albrecht Erlenmeyer as compatriot of Teutonia Bonn in 1876

Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer (born March 9, 1849 in Bendorf ; † July 7, 1926 there) was a German psychiatrist and graphologist .

Life

The son of the psychiatrist Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer and nephew of Emil Erlenmeyer graduated from high school in Koblenz . He then studied medicine in Bonn , Halle , Würzburg and Greifswald . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Bonn , Teutonia Halle and Makaria Würzburg country teams . 1872 Erlenmeyer was in Greifswald with a work over the cicatricielle neuroma doctorate . In 1877, after the death of his father (Adolph Albrecht E.), he took over the position of doctor in charge of the Erlenmeyer'schen Institutions for the mentally and mentally ill in Bendorf, founded by his father in 1848. Erlenmeyer converted the sanatorium for the mentally ill, built in 1866 by his father of the same name and rebuilt in 1877, into the "Rheinau" water sanatorium in 1890/91. From then on, his spa treatments included the entire water healing method, electrotherapy, carbon dioxide and spruce needle baths, as well as therapeutic gymnastics and massage.

Erlenmeyer published a large number of neurological and psychiatric papers in both domestic and foreign journals. In 1878 he founded the Central Journal for Neurology, Psychiatry and Forensic Psychopathology , which he edited for 12 years. In 1895 he published with William Thierry Preyer and Wilhelm Langenbruch (1860–1932) Die Handschrift, sheets for scientific writing and graphology .

One of his scientific priorities was epilepsy and its treatment. Among other things, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, he developed a water containing bromine for epilepsy therapy, which was widely used at the time and which contained four grams of potassium and sodium bromide and two grams of ammonium bromide for every 750 ml of water. 

Erlenmeyer also developed special activities as a freemason . On October 18, 1877, he was accepted into the Koblenz Lodge Friedrich zur Vaterlandsliebe and was temporarily its master of the chair . He was an honorary member of numerous other lodges and worked as a Masonic author.

Awards

Works

  • The writing: Basics of their physiology and pathology , Stuttgart 1879
  • About static reflex convulsions , Leipzig 1885
  • Morphine addiction and its treatment , 3rd edition, Neuwied: Heuser 1887
  • Our madness, studies and suggestions for its reorganization , Wiesbaden 1896
  • The principles of epilepsy treatment , Wiesbaden 1911
  • First aid for the mentally ill , Bonn 1919
  • The incapacitation due to alcoholism according to the BGB

literature

  • Eugen Gantter : The last one from Zwingenberg. Landsmannschafter Zeitung , 40 (1926), p. 211.
  • Julius Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, 1901, p. 469 f.
  • Max Mechow: Well-known CCers . Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, p. 48 f.
  • Baths Almanach, VIII edition 1901, Berlin: Rudolf Mosse 1901, p. 489
  • Hubertus Averbeck: From cold water treatment to physical therapy; Reflections on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century; Bremen, Europäische Hochschulverlag 2012, pp. 293–294, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Erlenmeyer A): "Bromwasser von Dr. A. Erlenmeyer ". Its nature, its healing effect on the diseased nervous system and the rules to be observed when using it. L. Keseberg, Hofgeismar 1891.
  2. ^ Albrecht Erlenmeyer: The establishment of the St. Johannis Lodge Friedrich zur Vaterlandsliebe in Or .: zu Coblenz; A contribution to the history of Rhenish freemasonry . W. Büxenstein, Berlin 1901.
personal data
SURNAME Erlenmeyer, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erlenmeyer, Friedrich Albrecht (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendorf
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1926
Place of death Bendorf