Bruno Görgen

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Bruno Görgen, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1836

Bruno Görgen (born August 22, 1777 in Trier , † May 29, 1842 in Vienna ) was an Austrian psychiatrist .

Life

Görgen was born as the son of an architect in Trier and received his doctorate in medicine in Vienna at the turn of the century . Even as a young doctor he was the primary surgeon of the insane asylum in the Imperial and Royal General Hospital , which also included the famous tower of fools (1805–1808), which he found extremely unhappy. From 1813 Görgen planned an insane asylum for the better-off mentally ill and was also active for the court chancellery as an expert on such issues. The Palais Windischgrätz in Gumpendorf near Vienna was suitable for this purpose and was able to take in the first sick in July 1819. The institution later moved to the former property of Baron Heniketein in May 1831. This laid the foundation for the Döblingen private institute, which existed until 1917 . Görgen's innovations consisted in seeing the insane as sick, following the Napoleonic model, and never using coercive measures such as chains, belts and the English waistcoat ( no restraint ). He attached great importance to occupational therapy for the sick, workshops and the healing properties of music. In his ideal there are no longer guards, but therapists. The most famous resident of the institution is likely to have been the poet Nikolaus Lenau , who was ill at home.

After Görgen's unexpected death in 1842, his son Gustav (1814–1860) took over the management of the institution, which was followed in 1860 by Maximilian Leidesdorf . In 1917, Görgengasse in the 19th district of Döbling was named after Bruno Görgen.

literature

  • Franz English: The Döblinger private insane asylum. In: Viennese history sheets . Vol. 1 (1969), pp. 398-406.
  • Bruno Goergen: Private sanatorium for the mentally ill. Opened in Vienna. Franz Wimmer, Vienna 1820 ( digitized ).
  • Joseph Johann Knolz : Presentation of the humanitarian and sanatoriums in the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns. Vienna 1840.
  • Heinrich Obersteiner : Bruno Görgen. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Volume 1, Springer, Berlin 1921, pp. 103-105.
  • Manfred Skopec: street names - witnesses of famous doctors, 44: Bruno Görgen (1777–1842). In: doctor, press, medicine. Vol. 78, H. 11, pp. 6-8.

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Remarks

  1. Gustav Görgen was accused of complicity in the patient's death ( punishable as an offense ) as a result of the suicide carried out in his Döblinger clinic by Count Stephan Széchenyi , founder of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , in April 1860 . After the court's indictment was served, Görgen committed suicide in the Leidesdorf'schen Haus (today: Braiten Castle ) in Baden near Vienna on October 5th that year. - See: Once and now an Austrian seaside resort. From an old Viennese. In:  Supplement to the new foreign sheet , No. 172/1867 (3rd year), June 25, 1867, p. 13 ( unpaginated ). (Online at ANNO ). ; Vienna News. (...) Dr. Goergen, the doctor under whose care (...). In:  Die Presse , No. 107/1860 (XIIIth year), April 18, 1860, p. 3 (unpaginated), center right. (Online at ANNO ). ; Mixed messages. At the top of the well-known (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 241/1860, October 12, 1860, p. 4113 center. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfb
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Individual evidence

  1. Mixed messages. At the top of the well-known (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 241/1860, October 12, 1860, p. 4113 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.