Carl Pelman
Carl Georg Wilhelm Pelman (born January 24, 1838 in Bonn ; † December 21, 1916 there ) was a German psychiatrist . He was the medical director of the former provincial insane asylum in Bonn . The joking threat in Bonn was literally: “Pass op, otherwise kiss de at de Pelmann” (watch out, otherwise you'll come to Pelman).
Life
Carl Pelman studied at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in 1860. While still studying, he went to Siegburg as a “well-appointed candidate in medicine at Bonn University”, where he devoted himself to psychiatry in the “ insane asylum ” there under the direction of Karl Friedrich Werner Nasse . In 1871 he became head of the Stephansfeld insane asylum in Alsace and in 1876 of the newly established Grafenberg Provincial Sanatorium near Düsseldorf . After Nasse's death in 1889, he took over the management of the provincial institute in Bonn and became the first full professor of psychiatry at the University of Bonn. In the same year 1889 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1904 he voluntarily resigned from his job for reasons of age. Pelman published several papers on psychiatry. He spent his twilight years in Bonn and died of pneumonia in 1916.
Pelman described the treatment methods of the time in his autobiography. He illustrates the aggressive aspect of the therapy forms of that time. Meningitis or vomiting were provoked. Patients were mechanically immobilized on a permanent basis. The patients were exposed to stimuli such as cold, heat or water. Pelman was a staunch opponent of these methods. Like Bernhard von Gudden , he advocated humane treatment of patients. He strived for a partnership between doctor and patient.
Works
- Dr. Carl Pelman: Memories of an Old Psychiatrist . Bonn 1912
literature
- Linda Orth et al .: “Pass op, otherwise kiss at de Pelman”. The insane being in the Rhineland in the 19th century. Bonn no year
- Article in the biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors
- European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Volume 57, Number 2 / May 1917, pp. 535-540.
- Monthly Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology. 1917, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 189-192. (PDF file; 2.3 MB)
Web links
- Linda Orth, Annette Baum: Biography of Carl Georg Wilhelm Pelman In: Biographisches Archiv der Psychiatrie (BIAPSY), 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Portal Rhenish History: Carl Georg Wilhelm Pelman (1838–1916), psychiatrist , accessed on November 16, 2014
- ^ Member entry of Carl Pelman at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 17, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelman, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pelman, Carl Georg Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1916 |
| Place of death | Bonn |