Bruno Schulz (psychiatrist)

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Bruno Schulz (born June 20, 1890 in Braunschweig , † February 7, 1958 in Munich ) was a German hereditary biologist and psychiatrist .

Live and act

The son of a gardener completed his studies mainly at the University of Jena . This was followed by a four-year assistantship as a psychiatrist at the sanatoriums in Berlin-Buch and at the mental hospital of the University of Jena. At the First World War he took recently as senior physician of the reserve part and came in October 1918 in French captivity.

From October 1924 he worked in Munich under Emil Kraepelin († 1926) at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry . In the genealogical-demographic department founded by Kraepelin and Ernst Rüdin , he worked experimental-psychologically, among other things, on problems of time estimation. He headed the department from 1925 to 1928 on behalf of Rüdin, who worked in Basel . In 1936 his internationally acclaimed work Methodology of Medical Hereditary Research was published, with a special focus on psychiatry , in which he implicitly questioned the sterilization policy under National Socialism . From 1945 until his death in 1958 he headed the same department again. On September 25, 1954, Schulz became an adjunct professor at the Munich Medical Faculty. His specialty was statistical data processing for empirical genetic prognosis, especially for epileptics .

Works (selection)

  • To the problem of determining the genetic prognosis. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. 1926, Vol. 102, pp. 1-37.
  • Methodology of medical genetic research with special consideration of psychiatry. Leipzig 1936.
  • together with Adele Juda : Highly gifted: Your inheritance and your relationship to psychological anomalies. Munich, Berlin 1953.
  • On the question of the hereditary nature of schizophrenia. In: Acta genet. 1956/1957, Volume 6, pp. 50-59.

literature

  • Franz Josef Kallmann : Bruno Schulz 1890–1958. In: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 1958, Volume 197, pp. 121-123 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  • Ute Wiedemann: The Adele Judas study of the most gifted as an example for researching the “genius problem”. Munich 2005 (dissertation), digitized version (PDF; 4.2 MB).
  • Erik Essen-Möuller: The genetic psychiatric life's work of Bruno Schulz. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 34, Issue 1, March 1959, pp. 51-59. Online: ISSN  1600-0447 , Wiley-VCH

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Wiedemann: The Adele Judas study of the most gifted as an example for researching the "genius problem". Munich 2005, p. 26.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt / Main 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hereditary biologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1958
Place of death Munich