Carl Friedrich Meyer (doctor)
Carl Friedrich Meyer (born August 4, 1803 in Lübbecke (Westphalia), † June 27, 1886 in Eitorf (Sieg)) was a German doctor and psychiatrist. As the founder and director of the “Sanatorium and Nursing Home for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Suffering” in Eitorf, he was one of the founders of applied psychiatry in the Rhineland .
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Meyer was born in Lübbecke in 1803 as the son of surgeon Anton Heinrich Meyer and his wife Amalia Charlotte Boesch. After an apprenticeship with a surgeon, then attending the Latin School in Hanover and training at the Medical-Surgical Institute in Minden, he was enrolled in medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn in 1824 .
Through the lectures on "lunatic" of the professor of internal medicine , Christian Friedrich Nasse (1778–1851), Meyer came to the then completely new field of psychiatry. In 1828 he received his doctorate and passed the medical state examination in 1831. From 1827 he was already working as an assistant doctor at the Siegburg insane asylum, founded in 1825, under the direction of senior medical officer Maximilian Jacobi (1775-1858).
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After his return and settling in Eitorf as a general practitioner, he married Antoinette Komp, widow of forester Joseph Windscheid, daughter of the wealthy Eitorf businessman Peter Wilhelm Komp. In 1832 the couple moved to Radevormwald, in 1839 to Elberfeld, where Meyer worked as a general practitioner, doctor for the poor and Was an obstetrician. Already there he began with the admission and care of the mentally ill. In 1846 Meyer and his family moved back to Eitorf, where he set up his private nursing home and received the necessary royal license.
The institution ("Meyers Hoff") consisted of several buildings in an area which is now part of the city center of Eitorf. Up to 55 patients were cared for who were treated in a hitherto unusual family environment and treatment. Residence and care were financed privately. After the reorganization of the Rhenish “insane being” and the establishment of further public nursing homes between 1876 and 1882, the Meyersche Anstalt was no longer sustainable and was closed. Meyer received general recognition for his professional and social achievements through the honorary title of " Secret Medical Council " and the award of the Red Eagle Order in 1881. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .
Today a memorial plaque in Eitorf reminds of the former nursing home and the efforts of Carl Friedrich Meyer and those of his son August Philipp Ottokar Meyer (1835–1908), who took up his father's life's work again and continued it for a few years in a similar form.
literature
- Karl Schröder : Eitorf under the Prussians: 1815 - 1918. Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2002, ISBN 3-87710-321-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Carl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luebbecke |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1886 |
| Place of death | Eitorf |