Ewald Hecker (psychiatrist)

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Ewald Hecker

Ewald Hecker (born October 20, 1843 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 11, 1909 in Wiesbaden ) was a German psychiatrist and student of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum .

Life

Hecker studied architecture and then medicine from 1861 to 1866. In the winter semester of 1862/63 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . In 1866 he was in Konigsberg with a thesis on tuberculosis doctorate and worked as a junior doctor at the provincial mental hospital Allenberg / East Prussia, where he met his future friend and mentor Karl Ludwig bald tree. Hecker worked in Kahlbaum's private psychiatric clinic in Görlitz in what is now Saxony from 1867 to 1876; Hecker's and Kahlbaum's works on catatonia and hebephrenia date from this period . Hecker married in 1871; The marriage has two children (a son and a daughter). From 1876 to 1881 Hecker worked in Plagwitz / Silesia, where he managed and reorganized the local sanatorium and nursing home . He then moved to Johannesberg to turn the local hydropathic hospital into a psychiatric clinic; from 1891 he treated patients in his house in Wiesbaden. After 1905 Hecker's health deteriorated; he suffered a series of strokes and died in Wiesbaden in 1909 at the age of 65.

His son is the film director, cabaret artist and sculptor Waldemar Hecker .

Services

Hecker is best known for the results of his collaboration with Kahlbaum, with whom he developed the concepts of dementia catatonica and dementia hebephrenica in the 1870s .

Works

  • Hebephrenia. A contribution to clinical psychiatry. In: Arch. Pathol. Anat. Physiol. Klin. Med. Volume 52, 1871, pp. 394-429.
  • The physiology and psychology of laughter and the comic. Berlin 1873.

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personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1909
Place of death Wiesbaden