Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen junior
Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen junior (born June 16, 1814 in Dietersheim- Dottenheim; † June 13, 1888 in Erlangen ) was a doctor , representative of humane psychiatry and one of those responsible for the incapacitation of the Bavarian King Ludwig II.
Life
Hagen was one of four sons of the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen . After attending the Latin school in Windsheim , he first studied theology from 1827, then medicine in Erlangen and Munich . His doctorate as Dr. med. took place on August 18, 1836. Hagen gained practical experience as a doctor in a country doctor's practice in Velden . A travel grant enabled him to meet the famous psychiatrists in Germany, Paris , London and Ghent in 1844 .
In 1846, Hagen was commissioned as an assistant doctor at the Erlangen District Insane Asylum to transfer 46 mentally ill people from the Schwabach insane asylum to the new Erlangen insane asylum. He found the patients in a miserable condition, lying partly naked on straw and tied to the wall with chains around their necks. This was the impetus for him to work especially for a tolerable, humane existence for the sick.
On July 22, 1847, Hagen married Margarethe Babette Engerer (* 1824, † 1912) in Windsheim. Seven children were born in the marriage, including the later Bavarian Lieutenant General Eduard Hagen (1851-1932). In 1849 Hagen was appointed director of the Irsee insane asylum near Kaufbeuren . From 1859 to 1887 he was director of the Erlangen District Insane Asylum, and from 1860 to 1887 University Professor of Psychiatry in Erlangen.
Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen was the royal senior physician in 1866.
Due to his professional competence , he was invited to work on the concise dictionary of physiology .
Hagen's name appears alongside three others on the report dated June 8, 1886, with which the Bavarian King Ludwig II was certified as mentally insane. According to Rudolf Sponsel from the Society for General and Integrative Psychotherapy Germany (SGIPT), Hagen was probably the most competent of the four experts psychologically, psychopathologically and scientifically, even if Bernhard von Gudden was more famous than Hagen. According to new findings, the report was untenable: Professor Heinz Häfner from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , founder and long-time director of the ZI in Mannheim, was allowed to inspect the secret house archive of the royal family of Bavaria, also brought together material from previously unpublished sources, state parliament stenograms and archives and rolled up "the Ludwig case" again. Gudden's diagnosis was paranoia and mental weakness. "This conclusion can no longer be held today," said Häfner. After studying the sources, it can be proven beyond doubt "that there were no signs of mental weakness or paranoid psychosis in Ludwig II," wrote the Ärzte Zeitung .
Works
- The hallucinations in relation to physiology, medicine and the administration of justice (dissertation, published in 1837 by O. Wiegand, Leipzig)
- Studies in the field of medical psychology , 1870
- About mental treatment of the insane
- Fixed ideas - newly published on the Internet by the Society for General and Integrative Psychotherapy Germany (SGIPT)
literature
- Theodor Kirchhoff : Hagen, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 700 f.
- Heinz Röhrich: Hagen, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 475 ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen, Friedrich Wilhelm junior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dietersheim- Dottenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1888 |
| Place of death | gain |