August Bostroem
August Bostroem (born July 17, 1886 in Giessen , † February 3, 1944 in Strasbourg ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist at four universities.
Life
Bostroem came from a family of Baltic Germans . His father was the pathologist Eugen Bostroem . In 1904 he began to study medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1905 he became active in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Hessian Ludwigs University , where he passed the state examination in 1909 and in 1910 became a Dr. med. received his doctorate . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War. Around this time he made guest appearances at the University of Gießen, the University of Hamburg and the University of Rostock . As a senior physicianAt the Psychiatric University Clinic in Leipzig , he qualified as a professor in 1922 in psychiatry and neurology. In 1924 he went to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which appointed him a regular associate professor in 1926 . The Albertus University of Königsberg appointed him in 1932 to the chair of neurology and psychiatry. In 1939 he moved to Leipzig University as full professor. In 1942 he finally went to the University of Strasbourg . He died in office at the age of 58, leaving behind his wife Gerda geb. Huisken .
Bostroem was a member of the NSDAP (1937) and the NS teachers' association . During the Second World War he was an advisory military psychiatrist in Military District V (Strasbourg), most recently with the rank of senior field doctor . Karsten Jaspersen , chief physician of the psychiatric-neurological department at the Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld , was looking for a. a. asked Bostroem for support against the implementation of Action T4 . Bostroem replied to Jaspersen in writing on August 8, 1940 as follows: “It is possible to talk about euthanasia in incurable, agonizing patients; but you cannot determine that after reading the questionnaire ”.
Colleagues associated with Bostroem were Kurt Beringer , his successor Werner Wagner and Johannes Lange . His most important teacher was Oswald Bumke .
Works
- Textbook of mental illnesses , Berlin 1930.
- On the Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Offspring from the Point of View of the Psychiatrist , 1934.
- with Johannes Lange : Brief textbook on psychiatry , Leipzig 1935, 6th edition, Thieme 1946 (with Werner Wagner )
Honors
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1943)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugen Bostroem (Univ. Giessen)
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 32 , 230.
- ↑ Dissertation: The naming of optical impressions .
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 67.
- ↑ Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 67
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bostroem, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bostroem, August Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurologist and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1944 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |