Bernhard Berliner
Bernhard Berliner (sometimes also Bernhardt Berliner, born March 23, 1885 in Hanover ; died November 26, 1976 in San Francisco , California ) was a German-American physician, psychologist, and neurologist .
Life
Berliner grew up in Hanover. From 1903 he attended the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in philosophy and psychology in 1907. Until 1909 he studied medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , in Munich he devoted himself to studies of psychiatry under Emil Kraepelin .
From 1910 to 1914 he was the Berlin assistant of the neurologist Hermann Oppenheim at the Clinic for Nervous Diseases in Berlin. Except for the time of the First World War, when Berliner worked as a general practitioner and psychologist, he practiced privately as a neuropsychologist in Berlin from 1912 to 1936. Due to the political developments, which were becoming increasingly insecure for the Berlin native of Jewish origin, he decided in 1935, together with his wife and daughter, to emigrate to the USA.
The family arrived in San Francisco on March 23, 1936. After Berliner was able to make first professional contacts, The Psychoanalytic Study Group of San Francisco was founded in 1936 with Berliner as President. However, this association was dissolved again a short time later. Berliner was then u. a. played a key role in founding the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society (SFPI & S).
Today, Berliners are mostly associated with the reflex hammer of the same name, developed by him and first presented in 1910 .
Fonts
- A new hammer for checking tendon reflexes. In: German med. Weekly. 36, No. 33, 1910, 1532.
literature
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 93 f.
Web links
- Early History of Psychoanalysis in SF (PDF; 323 kB)
- Bernhard Berliner: San Francisco's First Emigré Analyst (PDF; 116 kB)
- A short history of the reflex hammer
- Literature by and about Bernhard Berliner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Part of the estate of Bernhard Berliner in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berliner, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berliner, Bernhardt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California |