Charles Chrétien Henry Marc
Charles Chrétien Henry Marc (born November 4, 1771 in Amsterdam , † January 12, 1840 in Paris ) was a French doctor. He coined the terms pyromania and kleptomania.
Life
Marc came from the influential Marcus merchant family. He was a nephew of Adalbert Friedrich Marcus . He and his parents moved to France a few months after his birth. In 1780 he came back to Germany, where he passed the Abitur at the Schnepfenthal Educational Institute .
Marc studied medicine in Jena and Erlangen. After receiving his doctorate in 1792, he worked for practical training in hospitals in Vienna and Bamberg. One of his first works dealt with Thomas Beddoes ' hypothesis about the origin of tuberculosis from an excess of oxygen . In 1795 he submitted a text in German with comments on poisons and their effects in the body. At the end of 1795 he went to France, where he joined Jean-Nicolas Corvisart and was involved in the Societé médicale d'émulation Foundation. In 1811 he defended another dissertation before the Paris faculty. He submitted a number of articles on practical medicine, medical police and forensic medicine and was co-editor of the Annales d'hygiène publique et de médecine légale . In 1816 he became a member of the Paris Health Council and inspector for the rescue of the drowned. In 1817 he healed a princess from the House of Orleans from a serious illness, whereupon Duke Louis Philippe , who later became the citizen king, made him his personal physician.
In his capacity as a court expert, Marc became one of the most important representatives of the theory of monomania , which he took over from Jean-Étienne Esquirol and developed further, and in addition to an extensive description of various forms of monomania (such as “monomania of wealth, avarice, pride”, “ascetic, religious Monomania ”,“ Demonomania ”,“ Erotomania ”,“ Aidomania ”,“ Murder Monomania ”,“ Suicide Monomania ”,“ Monomania from Imitation ”) also extended to include the terms“ Kleptomania ”and“ Pyromania ”.
Fonts
- General remarks on poisons and their effects in the human body / According to Brownisches System presented by Carl Christian Heinrich Marc der Arzeney- und Wundarzeneykunst Doctor. Palm, Erlangen 1795.
- with Karl Friedrich Speyer : Dr. AF Marcus portrayed after his life and work. In addition to the story of the illness, opening of the body, nine supplements and the completely similar portrait of the deceased / of his nephews Dr. Speyer and Dr. Marc. With a preface by GM Klein . Bamberg 1817
- Memories on the Docimasie pulmonaire et sur les moyens de constater la mort par submersion . Paris 1808.
- Des moyens de constater la mort par submersion . Paris 1808.
- De la folie, considérée dans ses rapports avec les questions médico-judiciaires . Paris 1840.
- The mental illnesses in relation to the administration of justice . Voss, Berlin 1843/1844 (2 vol.)
literature
- Eloge de M. Marc. In: Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine 4 (1839/40), pp. 484-487.
- Karl Wilhelm Ideler : Preface . In: Charles Chretien Henry Marc: The mental illnesses in relation to the administration of justice . Vol. 1, Voss, Berlin 1843.
- Tobias Müller: Impulse control disorders - old wine in new bottles? In: Rolf Baer u. a. (Ed.): Ways of psychiatric research . Perimed, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-88429-390-7
- Uwe H. Peters: Lexicon of psychiatry, psychotherapy, medical psychology . Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-15060-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all living peoples . Vol. 12, Copenhagen 1832, p. 185.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marc, Charles Chrétien Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marc, Carl Christian Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1840 |
| Place of death | Paris |