Ferdinand Picht

Carl Ferdinand Picht (born October 16, 1807 in Gingst , † October 1, 1850 in Stralsund ) was a German doctor and head of the first Stralsund insane asylum .

Picht was born in Gingst on Rügen in 1807 as the second son of the local pastor Adolph Wilhelm Picht and his wife Katharine Maria Charlotte, née. Schwing (daughter of a manor from Berglase ) was born. He first received home tuition and then attended the Stralsund grammar school in the former Dominican monastery of St. Katharinen in Stralsund. Then he studied medicine in Greifswald . In 1827 he moved to the University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1829 with a physiological dissertation , which he dedicated to his father.

In July 1831 Picht became a general practitioner, surgeon and obstetrician in Stralsund, where he was also appointed medical advisor. He joined the “Medicinische Privatgesellschaft” from 1773 on. Together with three other doctors, Picht also worked as a doctor for the poor commissioned by the city, but resigned this office in 1837, especially since he was not additionally paid for it.

Picht suggested building a madhouse in Stralsund. This proposal was followed in 1837 by the municipal council of New Western Pomerania and Rügen . On October 11, 1842, the state “Provincial, Insane Care and Infirmary for New Western Pomerania and Rügen” was opened near the Tribseer Tor in the building now used as a medical center; Picht was the first senior doctor. In the same year he bought a house on Külpstrasse for 8,000 Reichstaler .

Picht died of cholera in 1850 .

family

Picht had been married to his first cousin Flora Friederike Schwing since October 15, 1834, with whom he had two daughters and a son.

Fonts

• Rügen's metallic monuments of prehistoric times, preferably chemically processed, and as a contribution to the patriotic antiquity . Greifswald 1827.
• About the connection between the sense of taste and smell, presented in particular on the basis of pathological arguments and experiments . Dissertation, Berlin 1829.

Web links

• Literature about Ferdinand Picht in the state bibliography MV