Friedrich Bird

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Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Bird (born September 1, 1791 in Wesel , † March 19, 1851 in Bonn ) was a German medic.

Life

Friedrich Bird was born the son of Johann Gerhard Bird, a Prussian civil servant and tax collector.

From 1805 he attended the Gymnasium Wesel (today Konrad-Duden-Gymnasium Wesel ) with the director Dr. med. Jodocus Casparus Albertus Eichelberg (1749-1819) and began studying medicine at the University of Duisburg in November 1811 under the rector Professor Daniel Erhard Günther (1752-1834) .

In December 1813 he joined the 1st Pomeranian Infantry Regiment as a volunteer hunter and was released as an officer after the end of the campaign; he continued his studies. In the second campaign of the Wars of Liberation he was involved as a senior physician at Field Hospital No. 15 and was released in March 1816 after it ended. Shortly afterwards he went to the University of Halle and received his doctorate there on August 23, 1817. In autumn 1819 he passed the state examination in Berlin and received his license to practice medicine on March 11, 1820, then he set up his practice in Rees .

In 1830 he was offered the position of second doctor in the First Rhenish Insane Asylum in Siegburg with the director Maximilian Jacobi . Shortly after his entry in March 1830, he discovered that there were disagreements with the director that went so far that his health suffered. Director Jacobi advocated a system of rigor and pedagogical influence, while Friedrich Bird advocated the principle of extreme mildness. On June 2, 1834, after difficult negotiations, he retired with a full salary and retired to Bonn. He refused any further employment and public activity and was only active as a writer.

As a writer, he created many medical works that were used for teaching the teaching of mental illnesses; he was also active in the historical field. In 1836 his main work, Pathology and Therapy of Mental Illnesses, was published . In his later writings he described the psychiatric disorders of historical figures in the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie .

He died of phlebitis after self-administered bloodletting became infected and ulcerated.

Memberships

He was a member of the physico-medical society in Erlangen and was registered on August 3, 1835 with the matriculation number. 1401 and the academic surname Aretaeus VII. Accepted into the academy of scholars Leopoldina .

Awards

  • During the campaign in 1813 he received the war medal .

Fonts (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Friedrich Bird in Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. P. 142 f.
  • Friedrich Bird in Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples , Volume 2. Copenhagen 1830. P. 266.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 264 ( archive.org ).
  • Friedrich Bird in New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 29th year, 1851, 1st part. Weimar 1853. pp. 244-246.
  • Friedrich Karl Stahl:  Bird, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 657 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salina Braun: healing with defects: psychiatric practice at the institutions Hofheim and Siegburg 1820-1878 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35853-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 2, 2019]).
  2. ^ Dietrich Geyer: Trübsinn und Raserei: The beginnings of psychiatry in Germany . CH Beck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66791-6 ( google.de [accessed on January 2, 2019]).
  3. ^ Member entry of Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Bird at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
personal data
SURNAME Bird, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bird, Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich; Bird, Friderick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1851
Place of death Bonn