Carl Fürstner

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Carl Fürstner

Carl Ludwig Fürstner (also Karl Fürstner ; born June 7, 1848 in Strasburg, Uckermark , † April 25, 1906 in Strasbourg ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. After him, pseudospastic paresis with tremor was called "Fürstner's disease".

Life

Fürstner attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. As the son of a doctor, he studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1866 to 1870 . In the same year he became active in the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In his final semesters famululierte he at Rudolf Virchow . He took part in the Franco-German War as a field assistant doctor . After his return he was appointed Dr. in Berlin in 1871 on the dispute over the othematoma. med. PhD. In 1872 he went to the Pathological Institute of the Royal University of Greifswald as an assistant . In 1873 he returned to Berlin and took up a position as senior physician in the insane department of the Charité under Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal . In 1877 he moved to the Stephansfeld insane asylum in Alsace as an assistant doctor . In 1878 the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg appointed him full professor for psychiatry and head of the newly built Grand Ducal Badische Universitäts-Irrenklinik Heidelberg (today Psychiatric University Clinic Heidelberg ).

Faculty of Heidelberg University 1886 (Fürstner = b)

Alfred Hoche , a student of Fürstner from his Heidelberg days, described the modest situation in the Heidelberg clinic in retrospect:

“The laboratory was a small room with one window; the lecture hall was the sick person's casino, in which the audience sat around a pool table. The clinic had 2 assistants, and recently 3. There was no exam in psychiatry, so that by no means all of the students went to the psychiatric clinic, a circumstance that was offset by Fürstner's personal attraction; After all, the mood of our boss at the time was very dependent on the frequency of his lectures, and the senior physician at the time joked 50 pfennigs for every listener who appeared above the expected average number. "

- Archives for Psychiatry 87 (1929), p. 25

In 1890 Fürstner accepted a call to the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg . Fürstner sat on the board of the German Association for Psychiatry and was co-editor of the Archives for Psychiatry , where most of his work appeared. He died somewhat surprisingly from the consequences and complications of gangrene of the foot as a result of undetected diabetes mellitus .

Fürstner belonged, such as E.g. also Paul Flechsig , one of the representatives of the so-called "brain psychiatry". He always considered mental illness to be part of brain pathology. That is why he was primarily interested in diseases that could be related to diseases of other central organs. He worked on pachymeningitis haemorrhagica, the gliosis of the cerebral cortex , muscle changes in psychoses and cavities in the brain and spinal cord , but above all on the pathological anatomy of progressive paralysis .

Fonts

  • On the issue of the othematoma. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 3 (1873), pp. 353ff.
  • About pregnancy and puerperal psychoses. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 5 (1875), pp. 505ff.
  • On albuminuria in alcoholists. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 6 (1876), p. 755 u. Archives for psychiatry. 7 (1877), pp. 643ff.
  • About insane clinics on the basis of a report on the operation of the University Insane Clinic in Heidelberg during the years 1878–1883 . Bangel & Schmitt, Heidelberg 1885.
  • About gliosis of the cerebral cortex. In: Archiv für Psychiatrie 15 (1884), pp. 835ff and Archives for psychiatry. 16 (1885), pp. 851ff.
  • About the behavior of body weight in psychoses. In: Deutsches Arch. F. clin. Med. 1890.
  • On the pathology and pathological anatomy of progressive paralysis in particular on changes in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 14 (1892), pp. 83ff.
  • About pseudospastic paresis with tremor. In: Neurolog. Centralblatt. (1896), p. 674ff.
  • On the pathology of progressive paralysis. In: monthly f. Psych. U. Neurolog. 12 (1902).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208 , 514

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SURNAME Fürstner, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fürstner, Carl Ludwig (full name); Fürstner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasburg, Uckermark
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1906
Place of death Strasbourg