Georg Honigmann (doctor)

Georg Gabriel Honigmann (born May 8, 1863 in Breslau ; † December 7, 1930 in Gießen ) was a German physician and university professor of internal medicine , neurology and the history of medicine.

Career

Honigmann, who later converted to Protestantism , came from a Jewish family. His father David Honigmann (1821-1885) was the general secretary of the Upper Silesian Railway and had been involved in the struggle for full equality for Jews in Prussia and in the intellectual founding of Reform Judaism since the 1840s in writings and articles . Georg Honigmann attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and, after completing his dissertation, became an assistant in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Giessen in 1886 . In 1891 he completed his habilitation there in internal medicine. In 1893 he opened a practice for internal medicine and neurology in Wiesbaden , where in 1913 he founded a "clinic for the internally ill, those in need of relaxation and the nervous" which, however, remained an economic failure. He then returned to Giessen in 1918 and worked there as an internist.

In 1919 he received the license to teach at the University of Internal Medicine. He also treated the history of medicine in a lecture from 1920 until he was appointed associate professor for this subject in June 1924. The founding of his own institute failed. After Honigmann's death they made do with teaching assignments again.

Honigmann's son Georg Honigmann achieved prominence in the GDR as a journalist and non-fiction author. His daughter is the writer Barbara Honigmann .

Services

In 1913, Honigmann published the work Medical Questions of Life and Their Modern Solution , in which, as the spokesman for the critics, he dealt with the much-discussed “medical crisis” at the time. What was meant by this was that medicine increasingly developed as a pure natural science and did not sufficiently take into account the needs of patients, for example for attention and attention to mental problems. In 1928, Honigmann co-founded the magazine Hippokrates and also worked for the magazine for medical psychotherapy and psychological hygiene and the Münchner Medizinisches Wochenschrift .

Publications (selection)

• Practical differential diagnostics for doctors and students. 6 volumes. Theodor Steinkopff publishing house , Dresden 1926.
• Medical questions of life and their modern solution. For doctors and laypeople. JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1913.
• On the prehistory of social hygiene , in: Archives for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926/27) 1-20.
• The history of medicine: magic, religion, ethics, mysticism, philosophy and science; a historical introduction to medicine - not only - for students, healers and doctors. Bohmeier, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-89094-469-8 . (Reprint of the edition Das Wesen der Heilkünste. Meiner, Leipzig 1924)

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• Representation of today's institute accessed July 30, 2008
• H. Kerschensteiner: Georg Honigmann. In: Munich medical weekly. 4, 1931, pp. 157-158.
• M. Knipper: Medicine between science and healing art? The internist and medical historian Georg G. Honigmann (1863–1930) from Giessen and the "Crisis of Medicine" during the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrike Enke (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Gießen: Institutions, actors and events from the foundation in 1607 to the 20th century . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09041-4 , pp. 369-394.
• Lecture by M. Knipper 1930, accessed July 30, 2008, at end of file

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Neumann: Honigmann, David. In: Jewish Lexicon. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927. (Reprint of the first edition, Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987)