Erich Jakowlewitsch Sternberg

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Erich Jakowlewitsch Sternberg ( Russian Эрих Яковлевич Штернберг ; born July 4, 1903 in Posen , † August 22, 1980 in Moscow ) was a German- Russian psychiatrist . He was one of the most prominent geriatric psychiatrists in the Soviet Union .

Life

Erich Sternberg was born as the only child of the businessman Jacques Sternberg and his wife Agnes and grew up in Schöneberg b. Berlin on. He passed his Abitur at the Werner Siemens Realgymnasium , where he met his lifelong friend Heinrich Schulte . He then studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1925 (dissertation: Currents in the simple gutter and their significance for stimulus physiology).

Sternberg began to publish scientifically as a student, supported by Arthur Kronfeld , who published his own work with him in 1927. Sternberg then began his specialist training with Karl Bonhoeffer at the Charité and initially continued it in the neurological department of the Hufeland Hospital of the municipal insane clinics in Berlin-Buch . Then he worked until 1933 as an assistant at a psychiatric and nervous clinic in Dresden .

Through the mediation of the health department of the League of Nations in Geneva , Sternberg is said to have found a job in Moscow, so that he emigrated to the Soviet Union with his mother and first wife in 1933 . Later he worked at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute of the USSR Pyotr B. Gannushkin . There he contributed to Arthur Kronfeld also applying to this institute and receiving a research professorship in 1936. In the course of the Great Terror , Sternberg was arrested in the same year by the Soviet secret police GPU and sentenced by an NKVD court to camp imprisonment in Siberia .

After Stalin's death , he was rehabilitated (1989) and made a prominent geriatric psychiatrist in the Soviet Union.

Works

Monographs

  • CSF findings at a multiple sclerosis . Karger, Berlin 1929
  • Problems of geriatric psychiatry: selected chapters from general and special geriatric psychiatry . Fischer, Jena 1975
  • Штернберг Э.Я. Геронтологическая психиатрия . М .: Медицина, 1977.

Professional article (selection)

  • Currents in the simple channel and their significance for the stimulus physiology. In: Beitr Physiol. Volume 3, 1925, pp. 79-84
  • On the problem of the direct and indirect effects of chemotherapy ... In: Klin Wschr. Volume 12, 1933, pp. 825-828
  • On the critique of existentialist and other antinosological tendencies in modern Western psychiatry. In: Psychiat Neurol med Psychol. Volume 16, 1964, pp. 397-402
  • Recent clinical research directions in Soviet psychiatry. In: Fortschr Neurol Psychiat. Volume 47, 1979, pp. 1-23

literature

  • Gerd Huber: Erich Sternberg 1903–1980. In: Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr. Volume 230, 1981, pp. 1–3 (with bibliography, selection)
  • Uwe-Henrik Peters: In memoriam Erich Sternberg. In: Neurologist. Volume 52, 1981, pp. 619-620

Remarks

  1. ↑ His first known publication dates from 1925
  2. ↑ The conceptual structure of classical aphasia in the light of linguistic theory. In: Psychology and Medicine. Volume 2, 1927, pp. 254-295
  3. ↑ Kronfeld later included them in his book Perspektiven der Seelenheilkunde from 1930, in which he expressly thanks Sternberg on p. 156.
  4. ↑ based on the dissertation by PB Foley, p. 148
  5. ↑ today Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch
  6. ↑ According to a publication published in May 1933: at the " Scientific Chemo-Pharmaceutical Research Center Moscow (Dir. Dr. IC Feldmann)"
  7. ↑ Uwe-Henrik Peters : In memoriam Erich Sternberg. In: Neurologist. Volume 52, 1981, p. 619 ff .; However, according to the information, which was not reliable in all details, both women soon traveled back to the West
  8. ↑ Gerd Huber: Erich Sternberg 1903–1980 . In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. Volume 230, 1981, pp. 1 ff.
  9. ↑ Уве Генрих Петерс . Немецкая психиатрия: Прошлое и настоящее . К. : Ассоциация психиатров Украины, 1996. С. 18, ISBN 90-72657-10-1
  10. ↑ Huber, ibid.
  11. ↑ Peters, ibid.
  12. ↑ Ватлин А. Ну и нечисть. Немецкая операция НКВД в Москве и Московской области. М. : Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2012 (История сталинизма). Стр. 200
  13. ↑ Штернберг Эрих Яковлевич. Книга Памяти Жертв Коммунистического Террора
personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Erich Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Штернберг, Эрих Яковлевич (Russian); Sternberg, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1980
Place of death Moscow