Alfred Glaus

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Alfred Glaus (born November 11, 1891 in Basel , † December 5, 1970 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

The son of the music teacher of the same name at the conservatory and organist at the Münster (1853-1919) grew up in Basel. He studied medicine mainly at the University of Basel , where he graduated with the state examination. For four years he worked as an assistant to Ernst Hedinger at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the University of Basel and then for a year as an assistant to Alfred Jaquet in his private clinic in Riehen . He did active service during both the First and Second World Wars . In 1920 he became an assistant doctor to Eugen Bleuler am Burghölzli . There he met his wife, a Polish assistant doctor, who from then on accompanied him in his work. The marriage remained childless.

Glaus became senior physician , first with Wilhelm von Speyr an der Waldau , then with Charles Ladame at Bel-Air. In 1927 he opened a private practice in Basel. He completed further training with Oswald Bumke at the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic in Munich, with Johannes Lange at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry and with Hermann Simon at the Westphalian Insane Asylum in Gütersloh. In 1931 he became a senior physician at the St. Pirminsberg Clinic , where he introduced occupational therapy .

In 1932 Glaus was appointed senior physician at Burghölzli by Hans W. Maier , where he remained until 1957. There he soon became the chief doctor of the polyclinic, then a private lecturer and adjunct professor . Glaus represented eugenic ideas. Together with Maier and Hans Binder, he standardized the “Zurich practice of prohibition of marriage , abortion regulations , sterilization and castration ” established by Maier's predecessors , which had an impact far beyond the Burghölzli.

He died in 1970 as a result of a brain injury sustained in a tram accident the previous year.

Fonts (selection)

  • About multiple myelocytoma with peculiar, sometimes crystal-like cell deposits, combined with elastolysis and extensive amyloidosis and calcification. In: Virchow's archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine . Vol. 223, H. 3 (April 11, 1917), pp. 301-339, doi: 10.1007 / BF02034325 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1917).
  • About graft schizophrenia and schizophrenic early dementia. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Volume 37 (1936), No. 2, and Volume 38 (1936), No. 1 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1936).
  • With Ernst Grünthal , Hans Heimann , Roland Kuhn , Theodor Spoerri , Jakob Wyrsch : Contributions to the history of psychiatry and brain anatomy (= Bibliotheca psychiatrica et neurologica. Vol. 100). Karger, Basel / New York 1957.
  • About termination of pregnancy and its prevention: On the problem of psychiatrically indicated termination of pregnancy in accordance with Article 120 of the Criminal Code as well as sterilizing operations on men and women in terms of interruption prophylaxis and planned parenthood. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart 1962.
  • Scientific publications 1917–1962. o. O. o. J. (anthology of 58 articles).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Switzerland. Edition 1966/67, p. 232.
  2. ↑ a b According to a report from the Zurich State Archives, the year of birth 1890, which can be found in other sources, is incorrect, see Zurich State Archives (government council resolutions), and Zurich University Archives (professor dossiers).
  3. ↑ Thomas Huonker : Diagnostics and “Eugenics”: On the diagnoses “schizophrenia” and “moral idiocy” and how they were shaped by Eugen Bleuler and Hans Wolfgang Maier. Presentation on the day of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism in the Reichenau Psychiatry Center , January 27, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Glaus, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1970