Christian Bruhn (doctor)

Christian Adolf Bruhn (born March 29, 1865 in Neumünster ; † July 17, 1927 in Reinbek ) was a German doctor and medical councilor .

Life

Christian Bruhn was born the son of a teacher. He attended the high school in Itzehoe from 1874 to 1878 , then switched to the high school in Glückstadt . After obtaining his school-leaving certificate in 1884, he studied medicine at the University of Kiel . After passing the Physikum in 1886, he studied one semester in Munich and one in Berlin. After passing the state examination in spring 1889, he worked as a general practitioner in Itzehoe and continued this activity until 1900. For his dissertation he conducted research at the Eye Clinic of the University of Kiel and submitted his doctoral thesis to the Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel at the end of 1889.

In 1900 he fell ill with tuberculosis , which was to have a major impact on his future career, and took a longer stay in Arosa, Switzerland . As a patient and then as a volunteer doctor in Falkenstein, he dealt with the views and methods of Peter Dettweiler . After that, he was initially a trainee doctor in the Beelitz-Heilstätten workers' pulmonary health facility set up by the Berlin State Insurance Institute . In 1903 he was chief physician of the Patriotic Women's Association of the Red Cross established sanatorium Oberkaufungen in Kassel . After a relapse in health in 1905 he took another cure in the high mountains and in 1907 I settled in Reinbek, where he took in other lung patients. In addition, he ran a small office in Hamburg, which he closed more often because of the World War , which was also mentally stressful , and which he closed completely in 1923.

He documented his experiences regarding his tuberculosis disease in 1924 in his work On the healthy and the sick tuberculous for others. By decree, the Prussian Welfare Minister Heinrich Hirtsiefer recommended the book to the teaching staff to purchase and the German Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis called on all authorities, associations, etc. to distribute the books . As a result, a low-cost edition was published by Hamburg-based Parus Verlag for mass distribution for charitable purposes. The responsible officer of the Reichsversicherungsanstalt described the work as "exemplary and masterful writing". The book was published in its 40th edition in 1928 and at that time had a total print run of 400,000 copies. The work was reissued several times in the version revised by Ernst Seiffert, member of the Reich Committee for Public Health Service , with a foreword by Gottfried Frey from 1937 to 1956 in Parus-Verlag.

In his second noteworthy treatise Scholars in Hypnosis from 1926, he dealt with the subject of the "hypnotic accident" and the so-called "dream thinking" and evaluated experiences with hypnosis by Hans Driesch , Albert von Schrenck-Notzing , Thomas Mann , and Walter von Gulat-Wellenburg , Carl Graf von Klinckowström , Richard Baerwald, Rudolf Tischner , Gustav Wyneken , Gustav Zeller, Fritz Grunewald, Ferdinand Maack , Georg Groddeck , Hermann Keyersling and Carl Happich . As “experts” or “witnesses” he cited almost 50 other thinkers of his time, including Erich Becher , Leo Graetz , Edgar Wöhlisch , Carl Zimmer , Richard Willstätter , August Messer , Hans Winterstein , Ferdinand von Lindemann , Ernst Siegfried Becher , Ernst von Aster , Fritz van Calker , Oskar Fischer , Ernst von Seuffert , Karl Gruber , Gustav Scanzoni von Lichtenfels , Erich Bohn , Max Kemmerich , Ludwig Klages , Karl Krall , Jaroslaw Marcinowski , Willy Seidel , Gustav Meyrink , Eugen Bleuler etc.

Bruhn was a member of the Association of Lung Hospitals Doctors , from which the present-day German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine emerged. He died of a gallbladder disease resulting from his illness . Since 1892 he was married to Helene Seitz and the father of the publisher Max Bruhn and the father-in-law of Henri Friedlaender . The composer Christian Bruhn is one of his grandchildren.

Fonts

• A case of injury to the optic nerve, bleeding into the orbit and optic sheath, and direct disruption of the choroid. [Diss. ], Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel, Kiel 1889.
• Of the healthy and the sick tuberculous; Experiences of a lung doctor. For everyone from Medical Council Dr. Christian Bruhn. Parus publishing house, Hamburg 1924 / F. Volckmar, Leipzig 1926.
• Scholars in hypnosis; on the psychology of belief and dream thinking. Printed by Konrad Hanf , Parus Verlag, Hamburg 1926. ( available online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A case of injury to the optic nerve, bleeding into the orbit and optic sheath, and direct rupture of the choroid. [Diss. ], Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel, Kiel 1889. ( available online )
2. ↑ Christian Bruhn † ; Obituary in: Zentralblatt for the entire tuberculosis research , 28 (1928), p. 143. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
3. ^ Christian Bruhn: Scholars in Hypnosis. Parus-Verlag, Hamburg 1926, p. 3.
4. ↑ The healthy and the sick tubercular. Experiences of a lung doctor. For everyone from Dr. Medical Councilor Christian Bruhn. In: Archive for Social Science and Social Policy , 59 (1928), p. 448.
5. ^ Bruhn, Christian Adolf. In: Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1926. Part 1. Copyright Office, Library of Congress , 1927, p. 890. ( limited preview in Google Book Search)