Ernst Burchard
Ernst Burchard (born September 9, 1876 in Heilsberg, Warmia , † February 5, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German doctor , sexologist and poet .
Life
Burchard studied at the universities of Tübingen , Würzburg and Kiel . His dissertation from 1900 was on Some Cases of Transient Glycosuria . After graduating, he initially worked as a general practitioner and neurologist in Berlin. In Berlin he met Magnus Hirschfeld and was active on the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee .
In various court proceedings, Burchard appeared as an expert on charges based on Section 175 . Together with Hirschfeld, Burchard wrote several essays in sex sciences. This also included a study on homosexual women. In 1913 the works appeared on the psychology of self-incriminations and sexual infantilism . In 1914, Burchard published his sexual science work Lexikon des entire sex life .
Burchard, who lived as a single, published poems in the magazine Der Eigen by Adolf Brand and in Hirschfeld's yearbook for sexual intermediate stages . Among other things, the poem Vivat Fridericus appeared there . Burchard died on February 5, 1920 and was buried in the Luisenfriedhof in Berlin.
Works (selection)
- Lexicon of the entire sexual life . Adler-Verlag, Berlin 1914.
- The sexual infantilism (legal-psychiatric border questions; Vol. 9, Issue 5). Marhold Verlag, Halle / Saale 1913 (together with Magnus Hirschfeld).
- On the psychology of self-incriminations . Adler-Verlag, Berlin 1913 (contributions to forensic medicine).
literature
- Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. Biographical Lexicon . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 , pp. 166f.
- Volkmar Sigusch : History of Sexual Science , Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus 2008 - ISBN 978-3-593-38575-4
- Volkmar Sigusch and Günter Grau (eds.): Personenlexikon der Sexualforschung , Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus 2009, p. 98f. - ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirschfeld, Magnus / Burchard, Ernst, Two reports on relationships between homosexual women, in: Archive for Criminal Anthropology and Criminology, Volume 50, 1912, pages 49-61
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burchard, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, sexologist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilsberg, Warmia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 1920 |
| Place of death | Berlin |