Friedrich Husemann

This article deals with the anthrosophic doctor Friedrich Husemann. For the politician (1873–1935) see Friedrich Ernst Husemann

Friedrich Husemann (born June 13, 1887 in Blasheim / Lübbecke , † June 8, 1959 in Wiesneck / Buchenbach ) was a German anthroposophic doctor and psychiatrist .

Life

Friedrich Husemann was the first son of a Protestant country pastor. Originally he also wanted to study theology (his brother Gottfried later did that ), but then switched to medicine. While still a student he met Rudolf Steiner ; He completed his training as a specialist in psychiatry in 1920.

At the beginning of the 20th century he developed a different medical-therapeutic concept based on the model of anthroposophy . He divided it into three areas

• physical therapy through medication and external applications,
• artistic therapy and
• Psychotherapy .

Friedrich Husemann founded the Wiesneck Sanatorium in 1930 , the Friedrich Husemann Clinic named after him today , a specialist clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Buchenbach near Freiburg im Breisgau , which is still largely based on Husemann's work today. During the Nazi period, Friedrich Husemann tried to save his patients' lives and was able to ensure that none of them fell victim to the Nazi authorities as part of the “destruction of life unworthy of life”.

He founded the standard work of anthroposophic medicine , The Image of Man as the Basis of the Art of Healing , of which he published the first two volumes in 1951 (Volume 1) and 1956 (Volume 2).

Works

• The Isenheim Altarpiece. An attempt to fathom its spiritual content . Buchenbach 1931
• Goethe and the art of healing. Reflections on the crisis in medicine . Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing House, Dornach 1935
  • 3rd, revised edition with the subtitle Introduction to the way of thinking of a new medicine : Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7725-0528-7 .
• On the image and meaning of death. Drafting a humanities-oriented history, physiology and psychology of the death problem . Weise, Dresden 1938
• Paths and wrong ways into the spiritual world . Free Spiritual Life (Studies and Experiments 1), Stuttgart 1962
• The Isenheim Altarpiece. The healing powers in Raphael's work (three lectures). Free Spiritual Life (Studies and Experiments 10), Stuttgart 1969
• with Otto Wolff as editor: The image of the human being as the basis of the healing art. Draft of a humanities-oriented medicine , 3 volumes:
  • Volume 1: On anatomy and physiology . Weise, Dresden 1941; 11th through A. 2003: Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-7725-0529-5 .
  • Volume 2: On pathology and therapy . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1956; 6. edit u. exp. A. 2000, ISBN 3-7725-0530-9 .
  • Volume 3: On special pathology and therapy . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1978; 4th A. 1993, ISBN 3-7725-0531-7 .

literature

• Peter Selg : Beginnings of the anthroposophical healing art. Ita Wegman , Friedrich Husemann, Eugen Kolisko , Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven , Karl König , Gerhard Kienle (= pioneers of anthroposophy. Vol. 18). Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2000, ISBN 3-7235-1088-4 .
• Friedwart Husemann, Werner Priever: Friedrich Husemann: A biography (= pioneers of anthroposophy ). Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7235-1329-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Husemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
• Friedrich Husemann Clinic

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedwart Husemann: Friedrich Husemann. In: Research Center for Culture Impulse - Biographies Documentation. Research Center for Culture Impulse, accessed on May 23, 2015 .