Carl Reiner Hertz

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Carl Reiner Hertz (born June 16, 1817 in Bonn ; † February 11, 1897 there ) was a German psychiatrist . He founded a private institution ("Hertz'sche Privat-Heil- und Pflege-Anstalt") in Bonn.

Live and act

The son of a bourgeois family in Bonn grew up in his hometown, attended high school and also studied medicine there. He received his doctorate in 1843 and, on the mediation of Christian Friedrich Nasse, initially started as an assistant to Maximilian Jacobi in the Siegburg insane asylum in August 1844 . At the request of his parents, however, he moved to the Bürgerhospital in Cologne in the winter of 1844 and established himself as a general practitioner in Neuss in 1845 . In 1847, at the request of Franz Richarz , Hertz became his assistant in Richarz's private insane asylum in Endenich . In the revolutionary year of 1848 he fell out with Richarz for political reasons and in 1849 founded his own institution in the "Gymnicher Hof" in the center of Bonn, near the Beethoven Hall . Supported by his wife, he practiced the integration of the sick into the circle of his own family and thus was one of the first in Germany to practice “family insane food”. The institution, which had meanwhile moved to a new building on today's Kreuzbergweg in Poppelsdorf, was handed over to Robert Thomsen in 1887 . Hertz embodied the type of the patriarchal "mad father" and was known and respected as "the old Hertz". His grave is in the old cemetery in Bonn.

Fonts

  • Karl Reiner Hertz: Quaestio obstetricia: Quomodo naturae vires in illas placentae humanae particulas agant, quae post fetus expulsionem diutius in cavitate uteri occluduntur. Univ., Med. Diss. - Bonnae, 1843… Georgi, Bonnae 1843.
  • FW Boecker, C. Hertz, Fr. Richarz (eds.): Reiner Stockhausen. An act-like contribution to psychic-judicial medicine for doctors u. Lawyers, with reports from M. Jacobi u. the editors. Elberfeld 1855.
  • Karl Reiner Hertz: About the Dr. Thesmar, ... The obligations of the legislature and the state towards the private insane institutions. (1858).

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personal data
SURNAME Hertz, Carl Reiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertz, Karl Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1897
Place of death Bonn