Friedrich Karl Stahl

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Carl Friedrich Stahl

Friedrich Karl Stahl (actually: Carl Friedrich Stahl (according to Reg.Ausz.), Originally: Golson-Uhlfelder ); (* March 23, 1811 in Munich ; † May 19, 1873 in Karthaus-Prüll near Regensburg ) was a German psychiatrist .

Life

Friedrich Karl Stahl was born as the son of Jewish parents and the grandson of Abraham Uhlfelders and converted to Lutheran Protestantism on March 6, 1824 in Munich with his parents and six other siblings, with Friedrich Thiersch being his father . At the baptism, the whole family took over the name »Stahl« after the example of their eldest son Friedrich Julius Stahl, who converted in 1819 . In 1842 Carl Friedrich married the Catholic Sabine Kestler, daughter of the Schweinfurt physicist Matthäus Kestler and, after her death, Dorothea Eisenbeiß.

From 1828 onwards, Stahl studied medicine in Munich , Erlangen , Freiburg and finally Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in 1833. He then received the clinical assistant position with Adolph Henke in Erlangen, passed the trial relationship in Bamberg in 1836 and the state examination in Munich. In 1837 he settled in Sulzheim near Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia as a doctor, which was to determine his further career, because the endemic cretinism common in that area aroused his interest and he undertook detailed studies of this clinical picture. Stahl published the result of his scientific observations in 1843 under the title Contributions to the pathology of idiotism endemicus , which earned him membership in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1844 . A generous travel grant granted by Ludwig II enabled him to continue his research outside Bavaria in 1846 at the suggestion of the anatomist and physiologist Rudolf Wagner , a close friend of his brother Julius. He visited Vienna and Prague and toured Württemberg , the Salzburg region , Styria and Switzerland . In 1848 Stahl processed his observations in New Contributions to the Physiognomics and Pathological Anatomy of Idiotia endemica . His references to individual suture adhesions occurring in cretin skulls gave Rudolf Virchow initial suggestions for his theory of the history of the development of cretinism and the skull deformities that occur in it . A continuation of these contributions appeared in the Prague quarterly of 1850. Steel then became a member of other scientific societies, received the Prix ​​Montyon of the Paris Academy and in 1855 by the Russian Tsar with the Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class awarded in gold. He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Brunnenhof of the Karthaus Prüll

In 1848 he became a “Physicats administrator” in Sulzheim and moved to Munich in 1852 after the court there was dissolved. After visiting most of the psychiatric clinics in Germany and Austria, he was appointed director of the "madhouse" St. Georgen in Bayreuth in 1853 ; Stahl fulfilled the task of reforming the institution mentioned in a modern psychiatric sense in an exemplary manner. In addition, he continued to work in the field of skull deformities. In 1860 he succeeded Kiderle as head of the Upper Palatinate district clinic Karthaus-Prüll near Regensburg; in this position he worked thirteen years until his death.

Stahl was considered an excellent psychiatrist. Part of his scientific work was published in the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie . He also took part in the work on the General German Biography , but was only able to complete four articles on psychiatrists for the first two volumes, published in 1875, by his death. Friedrich Karl Stahl died of tongue cancer on May 19, 1873 . Until his last period of suffering, he worked tirelessly, both scientifically and professionally. His friend and colleague Caspar Max Brosius praised him in an obituary for “multiple studies in his field, in which he was undisputedly one of the first positions as a craniologist”, and for “his humane and beneficial work as an insane and asylum doctor for a full twenty years ".

Works

  • Contribution to the pathology of idiotism endemicus ( Acta of the kk Leopoldino-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher ) Schweinfurt 1843.
  • New contributions to the physiognomics and pathological anatomy of the Idiotia endemica , 1848. 2nd ed. 1851
  • Some clinical studies on cranial deformities.
  • Official report on the reform of the St. Georgen asylum near Bayreuth in 1853 a. 1854.
  • For teaching about the organic disposition to insanity.
  • Skull configuration and intelligence. A contribution to the case history of the enostoses of the clivus in the mentally ill.

ADB Article:

literature

  • Hirsch and Gurlt: Biogr. Lexicon vorr. Doctors V. 503
  • Julius Pagel :  Stahl, Friedrich Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 400 f.
  • Theodor Kirchhoff (Hrsg.): German insane doctors: individual images of their life and work. Edited with the support of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. Julius Springer Verlag, Berlin 1921 and 1924 (2 volumes). Vol. I, p. 240 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Karl Stahl  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ baptismal register excerpt
  2. ^ Wilhelm Stieda : Friedrich Wilhelm Stahl, Professor of Political Science, 1812-1873 . In: Hessische Biographien 3 , p. 217
  3. ↑ General Repertory of Literature. Published by the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1824 p. 125:
  4. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Karl Stahl at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  6. ^ Theodor Kirchhoff (ed.): German insane doctors. Individual images of their life and work. Julius Springer, Berlin 1921, Vol. I, p. 241.
  7. ↑ Kirchhoff, Dt. Psychiatrists, vol. I, p. 240 f. (Article by Karl Eisen , Regensburg)
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Friedrich Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahl, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1873
Place of death Karthaus-Prüll near Regensburg