Caspar Max Brosius

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Caspar Max Brosius

Caspar Max Brosius (born June 12, 1825 in Burgsteinfurt , Westphalia , † February 17, 1910 in Bendorf ) was a German doctor and psychiatrist .

Life

Caspar Maximilian Brosius was the son of the district physician in Burgsteinfurt . After attending grammar school in Münster , he studied medicine in Greifswald and Bonn , received his doctorate in De hebetudine animi (On the stupidity of the soul) in 1848 and then practiced initially in Burgsteinfurt. In 1855 he became an assistant doctor at the “Asylum for brain and nervous patients ” founded by Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer in 1848 in Bendorf near Koblenz . On July 1, 1857, Brosius himself opened a psychiatric institution there, which he expanded in 1863 and 1878 to include two boarding schools for women with nervous disorders.

"In treating his patients, he started from the philanthropic, but at that time still little popular, thought of equating the external circumstances of the sick as much as possible with those of the healthy, according to their habits." - This is how Peretti characterized the work of Brosius, whom he personally knew. Even the terminally ill lived with the healthy residents of the houses, including the Brosius family, as far as possible. His principle: "The kitchen and cellar are far more important in the institution than the pharmacy." At the natural scientist meeting in Hanover in 1865, Brosius presented this "family system" in a lecture after he had already presented himself to the psychiatric section of the natural scientist in 1858. Assembly in Karlsruhe had used the " no restraint " system. With the translation of John Connolly's "Treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints" (1856, German 1859), he exerted a great influence on the humanization of psychiatry in Germany.

Since the founding of the magazine " Der Irrenfreund " in 1859 by Friedrich Koster, Brosius worked on the magazine as an editor , since 1878 as the sole editor. In 1883 he reported there over 25 years of work in his sanatorium in Bendorf, whose management he did not give up until 1897. After several unsuccessful attempts, in 1900 he succeeded in founding an aid association for the mentally ill in the Prussian Rhine Province .

Works

  • John Connolly: Treating the insane without mechanical coercion. German communicated by Dr. CM Brosius. Lahr, 1860 ( digitized version )
  • The mad friend. - Anniversary publication for the 25th anniversary of the Brosius sanatorium in 1883

literature

  • Pelman: Psych.-neurolog. Weekly. XI. Volume, No. 53 from March 26, 1910
  • Peretti: Caspar Max Brosius. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Individual images of their life and work. . Volume II, Springer, Berlin 1924, pp. 62–65 (with picture).
  • Brosius, Caspar Max. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Volume 1, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996
  • Kai Sammet: About insane asylums and their further development in Germany. Lit, Münster 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pharmaceutical Newspaper Vol. 2 (1857) No. 28 (July 15, 1857) p. 111
  2. ^ Peretti: Caspar Max Brosius. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Individual images of their life and work. . Volume II, Springer, Berlin 1924, pp. 62-65.
  3. ↑ Peretti 1924. p. 63.
  4. ↑ Dr. Friedrich Softer (Ed.): Der Irrenfreund: A psychiatric monthly for general practitioners . Scheurlen, 1859 ( full text in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Brosius, Caspar Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brosius, Kaspar Max; Brosius, Casparus Max; Brosius, Kaspar (DbA); Brosius, CM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgsteinfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1910
Place of death Bendorf