Anton Delbrück

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Anton Delbrück with Auguste Forel (from left) in Burghölzli around 1900

Anton Wolfgang Adalbert Delbrück (born January 23, 1862 in Halle / Saale , † February 21, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German psychiatrist and clinic director.

Life

Anton Delbrück belonged to the Delbrück family , whose members held several influential positions in Prussia and the German Empire in the 19th century . He was the youngest brother of the politician Clemens von Delbrück (1856–1921).

Delbrück grew up in Halle / Saale, attended grammar school there until he graduated in 1881. He studied medicine at the Friedrichs University in Halle and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and passed the state examination in 1886. During his studies he was assistant to the surgeon and writer Richard von Volkmann . He turned to psychiatry, initially working as a trainee doctor at the Saxon Provincial Insane Asylum Altscherbitz near Halle, from 1888 as an assistant doctor at the Friedrichsberg State Hospital in Hamburg, and from 1890 at the cantonal Zurich insane asylum , which was headed by Auguste Forel .

In 1891 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry at the University of Zurich . He became known through lectures and publications on forensic psychopathology . Like Forel, he was a supporter of the abstinence movement .

In 1898, the Bremen Senate appointed him director of the St. Jürgen Asylum , the department for the mentally and mentally ill at the municipal hospital. In 1898 he took over from Johann Stoevesandt the task of planning and building a psychiatric clinic in Ellener Feldmark, which he was able to open in 1904 and which he managed until 1927. Stoevesandt had prevailed against his predecessor Jean Paul Friedrich Scholz and his followers in this project .

In 1915 he was awarded the title of professor by the Bremen Senate.

Services

In 1891 Delbrück described the pseudologia phantastica , the morbid desire to lie, as an "abnormal variation of the soul".

Fonts (selection)

  • On the doctrine of the crossing of nerve fibers in the chiasma nervorum opticorum . In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. Vol. 21 (1890), H. 3, S. 746-777, doi: 10.1007 / BF02229736 (dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1889; digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • The Pathological Lie and the Mentally Abnormal Dodgers: An Inquiry into the Gradual Transition of a Normal Psychological Process into a Pathological Symptom for Doctors and Lawyers. Enke, Stuttgart 1891 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1891).
  • About Hamlet's madness. Academic town hall lecture, given on November 24th, 1882 in Zurich. Publishing house and printing company, Hamburg 1893.
  • Forensic Psychopathology: A Short Textbook for Students, Doctors, and Lawyers. Barth, Leipzig 1897.
  • Hygiene of alcoholism In: Theodor Weyl (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Hygiene. Supplement volume 1, Fischer, Jena 1901, pp. 113-195.

literature

  • Rudolf Gildemeister: Delbrück, Anton Wolfgang Adalbert. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 105 f.
  • Delbrück, Anton. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 1996, p. 246 ( online ).

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