Friedrich Brenner (psychiatrist)

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Johannes Friedrich Brenner (born January 8, 1809 in Basel ; † October 31, 1874 there ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Brenner studied medicine at the universities of Zurich , Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in Basel in 1830. From 1832 he was an insane doctor at the Basel “Almosen” (building of the former Barfüsserkloster near the Barfüsserkirche ). There he got rid of chains and beatings (see also No restraint ). In 1839 he also took over the management of the newly opened insane department of the canton hospital in Münsterlingen . In 1842 he became head of the newly built insane asylum behind the Markgräflerhof in Basel. In 1835, Brenner completed his habilitation at the University of Basel; He gave his trial lecture on “What are mental illnesses?” . Appointed associate professor for psychiatry in 1855, he was the first lecturer in this subject at a Swiss university.

His daughter Elisabeth (1836–1884) married the teacher and scientist Friedrich Burckhardt in 1855 . The zoologist Rudolf Burckhardt was his grandson.

Fonts

  • Report on the insane asylum from its opening 1842 to 1850. Basel 1851.
  • Report on the effectiveness of the insane asylum in Basel from 1851 to 1860. Basel 1862.
  • About the evils in the Basel insane asylum and the necessity of its transfer. Report to the medical society in Basel by a special commission. For the attention of the high authorities. C. Schultze, Basel 1865.
  • Basics of an insane law. Submitted to the Association of Swiss Psychiatrists. Schweighauser, Basel 1871.
  • Report on the effectiveness of the insane asylum in Basel from 1861 to 1870 and the supply house from 1855 to 1870. Riehm, Basel 1872.

literature

  • Gottlieb Burckhardt : Nekrolog. In: Correspondence sheet for Swiss doctors . Vol. 5 (1875), pp. 65-69.
  • Brenner, Friedrich. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 1996, vol. 1, p. 180. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Georges Schüler: The Basel psychiatrist Friedrich Brenner 1809–1874. A contribution to the history of Swiss psychiatry as well as to the social, religious and cultural history of the city of Basel in the 19th century (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences . Vol. 27). Sauerländer, Aarau 1974, ISBN 3-7941-0996-1 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1973).
  • Thomas Haenel: On the history of psychiatry. Thoughts on the general and Basel history of psychiatry. Birkhäuser, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-7643-1356-0 , pp. 87-98.

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personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenner, Johannes Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1874
Place of death Basel