Eric David Wittkower

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Eric David Wittkower (born April 4, 1899 in Berlin ; died January 6, 1983 in Montreal ) was a German-British-Canadian psychiatrist.

Life

Erich Wittkower's father Louis Wittkower (1860–1942) came from Edinburgh and lived as a British merchant in the German Empire, his mother Berta Katz (1869–1920) came from Berlin. His sisters Elsbeth Cohen (born 1886) and Lili Meier (born 1893) were victims of the Holocaust . He married Claire Francesca Weil (1906–) in 1931 and they had two children.

Wittkower became a soldier in the German army in 1917 during the First World War. From 1918 he studied medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1924. He worked as an assistant doctor at the Charité and in 1932 became a private lecturer at the Berlin University. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated via Italy and Switzerland to England, where he (back) received British citizenship in 1934. From 1935 he worked at the psychiatric Tavistock Clinic . During World War II, Wittkower served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) from 1940 to 1945.

Wittkower emigrated to Canada in 1951, where he taught from 1953, from 1963 as a professor, at the Psychiatric Institute of McGill University and from 1956 to 1970 set up and headed the Department of Transcultural Psychiatry . The American Psychosomatic Society elected him its President in 1970/71.

Fonts (selection)

  • Influence of emotions on the body (affect physiology and organ neuroses) . Vienna: Sensen, 1936
  • The neuroses in was . New York: Macmillan, 1940
  • Psychosomatic medicine / Vol. 6. No. 4th 1944
  • Modern trends in dermatology . 1948
  • Modern practice in psychological medicine . London: Butterworth, 1949
  • A psychiatrist looks at tuberculosis . London: The National Assoc. for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1949
  • Skin diseases from a psychosomatic point of view . Basel: Geigy, 1963
  • (Ed.): Psychosomatic medicine: its clinical applications . Hagerstown, Md .: Harper & Row, 1977 ISBN 0-06-142768-3

literature

  • Wittkower, Eric David , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1254
  • Wittkower, Eric David , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 389

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personal data
SURNAME Wittkower, Eric David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittkower, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British-Canadian psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1983
Place of death Montreal