Erwin Stransky
Erwin Stransky (born July 3, 1877 in Vienna ; † January 26, 1962 there ) was an Austrian psychiatrist .
Erwin Stransky studied medicine with Heinrich Obersteiner , Lothar von Frankl-Hochwart and Julius Wagner-Jauregg . In 1908 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry and neuropathology at the University of Vienna . In an edition of the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift published in 1916, under the title “War and Population”, he called for the “dense crowd of psychopathically inferior people” to be sent to the front so that “individuals whose reproduction is less desirable, instead of selectively more valuable ones expose ". When Julius Wagner-Jauregg had to answer for electrical torture of soldiers at the front in 1920, he defended them. The submission of the patient to the doctor's will was at the center of his psychiatric methods.
"... get into the saddle immediately and force the neurotic's soul under you ..."
In July 1938, despite his radical German nationalism, Erwin Stranksy had to resign from his teaching and examination office after an official request by the dean because of his Jewish ancestors. In 1945 he was entrusted with the reconstruction and management of the mental hospital on Rosenhügel . In 1946 he was awarded the venia legendi again by the University of Vienna . Stransky's recommendation helped Heinrich Gross later to get employed as a forensic psychiatrist.
Stransky was the first neurologist on the continent to introduce mental hygiene . He worked in the fields of manic-depressive illnesses , anatomy of the inflamed nerves, applied psychopathology , mental hygiene and multiple sclerosis . Stransky was an honorary member of the American Psychiatric Association .
Web links
- Literature by and about Erwin Stransky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Erwin Stransky in the German Digital Library
- Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information on Erwin Stransky - excerpt from: Judith Bauer-Merinsky: The effects of the annexation of Austria by the German Reich on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna in 1938: biographies of dismissed professors and lecturers. Vienna: Diss., 1980, pp. 261–265b ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Herwig Czech: Research without scruples. The scientific evaluation of victims of the Nazi psychiatric murders in Vienna . In: Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neubauer (ed.): On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna: From forced sterilization to murder . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99325-X , p. 152 ( Google preview ).
- ^ 80th birthday of Erwin Stransky , Vienna City Hall Correspondence July 1957
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stransky, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1962 |
| Place of death | Vienna |