Franz Ludwig Anton Kelp

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Franz Ludwig Anton Kelp (born March 25, 1809 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † February 17, 1891 ibid) was a German doctor and psychiatrist . He was the first director of the insane asylum in Wehnen, founded in 1858 .

Live and act

Kelp was the son of the pharmacist Rudolph Heinrich Kelp (1762-1818) and his wife Margarethe Ulrike Charlotte nee. Ummius (1775-1860). He attended high school in Oldenburg and studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1828 to 1833 . There he received his doctorate in 1832. In 1833 he settled in Dedesdorf as a general practitioner and in 1837 he moved to Delmenhorst , where he was appointed district physician in 1843 .

He took an early interest in mental illnesses and began in 1845 with preparatory examinations for the establishment of a new mental hospital as a supplement to the nursing home in the Blankenburg monastery . After numerous visits to domestic and foreign sanatoriums, in 1850 Kelp presented a planning draft together with the architect Hero Diedrich Hillerns and in the following year anonymously published a brochure The new insane asylum for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , which was presented to the Oldenburg Parliament in March 1853 . In the same year, the state parliament approved 20,000 thalers for the new hospital building, which was built in the area of ​​the Wehner Esch according to Hillern's design. When the institution, today's Karl Jaspers Clinic Wehnen , opened on March 15, 1858, Kelp was appointed its first director. He headed the clinic as a medical advisor , since 1872 the senior medical advisor with great organizational skills and a talent for psychiatry.

From 1854 to 1860 he also provided medical care for the chronically mentally ill in Blankenburg Abbey and came out with a number of scientific publications. Since 1850 he was a member of the Collegium Medicum , the highest medical authority of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . In 1862 he was elected President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology .

family

Kelp was married twice. On June 21, 1836, in Berne, he married Anna Henriette von Buttel (1815–1879), the daughter of the merchant Friedrich Christian von Buttel (1792–1861) and niece of the later Prime Minister of Oldenburg, Dietrich Christian von Buttel . The marriage, which resulted in two daughters, was later divorced. On May 25, 1856, Kelp married Caroline Johanne Marie Müller (1820–1905) from Neuenkirchen bei Damme in Delmenhorst, the marriage remained childless.

Fonts

  • Insane statistics of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Published in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Vol. 4, H. 4. Berlin. 1847. (Also published as a special edition)
  • The new insane asylum for the Duchy of Oldenburg. Oldenburg. 1851. 1852 (2nd edition).
  • The Großherzoglich Oldenburgische Heilanstalt to Wehnen in its entire facility. Published in: Magazine for the state and municipal administration in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, 2nd edition. 1861. pp. 20-67.
  • Medical-statistical report on the sanatorium in Wehnen 1861–1866. Oldenburg. 1867.

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personal data
SURNAME Kelp, Franz Ludwig Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1891
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)