August Scharnke

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August Scharnke (born April 4, 1885 in Striegau , Lower Silesia , † October 5, 1931 in Rostock ) was a German medical officer, psychiatrist and university professor.

Life

In 1903 Scharnke began to study medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education . From 1904 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . In the same year he became active in the Pépinière-Corps Franconia. He completed his practical year at the Charité . As a medical officer he joined the 27th Infantry Brigade of the 14th Division in Cologne in 1910 . In 1913 he went to the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic of the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg as a senior physician on leave . There he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . From 1914 to 1919 he took part in the First World War, most recently as senior staff doctor .

After the November Revolution in 1920 he went to the clinic of the Philipps University of Marburg as a senior physician . He completed his habilitation in 1921 and received the venia legendi for psychiatry and neurology as a private lecturer . In 1925 he was appointed extraordinary associate professor . In 1927 he went to the Domjüch state insane asylum as a senior physician (civilian) . At the University of Rostock he taught as a professor of psychiatry. He died at the age of 46.

Works

  • Spirochetes and paralysis . Marburg 1924.
  • On the relations between the eidetic phenomena and the hallucinations . Berlin 1927.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on August Scharnke in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 60/400.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Enuresis and Spina bifida occulta .
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: On the necessity of an etiological design of paralysis therapy ; published in: Journal for the entire neurology and psychiatry 69 (1921), pp. 220-253.
personal data
SURNAME Scharnke, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharnke, August Hermann Hans Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, medical officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Striegau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1931
Place of death Rostock