Georg Ludwig (medic, 1826)

Dr. Georg Ludwig

Carl Georg Ludwig (born May 9, 1826 in Darmstadt , † May 3, 1910 in Heppenheim ) was a German psychiatrist.

family

According to Alma Kreuter, his father was senior consistorial councilor and first city pastor in Darmstadt. According to the Hessian biography , however, his father was Ludwig Carl Ludwig and was a Privy Councilor and Director of Appeal and Court of Cassation, married to Sophie geb. Ruths. This source names the wife of the doctor Caroline Friederike Louise geb. Happy. Their daughter Caroline, born in Hofheim in 1859, married the psychiatrist Erhard Bieberbach and had their son Ludwig Bieberbach with him .

Life

Georg Ludwig

Georg Ludwig attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium , where he already belonged as a secondary student to a striking "Pennal connection Starkenburgia". Size, strength, mental strength and energy earned him great respect from his fellow students. When the connection was revealed, Ludwig was considered the most polluted. He was evicted for half a year . After graduating from high school, he decided to study medicine. On October 29, 1844 , he enrolled at the Hessian Ludwig University . In January 1845 he signed up as a Renonce with Corps Starkenburgia , in which his brother Friedrich had already been active. On August 23, 1845, he became a member of the narrow corps and distinguished himself twice as sub- senior and twice as senior . During the winter semester of 1846/47, Ludwig was consilated, ie excluded from studying as a punishment. On May 1, 1847, Georg Ludwig's enrollment was renewed. Since the summer semester of 1847 he has been a corps boy of the Starkenburgia again , and in July 1848 he represented the Gießen Seniors' Convent at the delegates' assembly of the Seniors' Convent in Jena. In the fall of 1849 disabled , he was in November 1849 Corp loop carrier of Saxo-Borussia .

In the winter semester of 1849/50 he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1853, nine years after starting his studies, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. During his time in Heidelberg he worked temporarily for his brother-in-law Ludwig Ernst Wilhelm Hohenschild. He was director of the Hofheim State Hospital from 1849 or 1850 to 1855 . After receiving his doctorate, Ludwig became an assistant doctor in Hofheim. In 1854 he visited the Illenau and the psychiatric clinic on Baumgartner Höhe in Vienna . In 1855 he succeeded his brother-in-law in Hofheim, who became the first district doctor in Darmstadt. After the state insane asylum in Heppenheim was opened at the beginning of 1866 , the establishment of which Ludwig had promoted, he became director there. The Aid Association for the Mentally Ill in Hesse was founded in Heppenheim in 1874. Together with Professor Riegel from the Medical Clinic in Gießen, Ludwig received the order in 1887 to plan the construction of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Gießen and another facility for the accommodation of the mentally ill in Gießen. The client was the Grand Ducal Hessian State Government. The clinic in Giessen was opened in 1896. Ludwig retired the following year. He advocated a move away from custody to treat the disabled.

Georg Ludwig was married. A son Hermann also became active in Corps Starkenburgia in 1878. As an old man, Georg Ludwig emerged as the author of numerous speeches and celebratory poems.

Giessen psychiatry chair

It is thanks to Ludwig's urging that the first Hessian psychiatry chair was established at the University of Giessen. The first full professor was Robert Sommer . In front of the entrance to the main building, a bronze relief commemorated Ludwig: GEORG LUDWIG. A PRE-FIGHTER FOR THE WELL-BEING OF THE SICK

Honors

literature

Robert Sommer : Memorial service and obituary for Georg Ludwig. (Special print); in: Clinic for Mental and Nervous Diseases , 5 (1910) H. 3.
Lecture by Wilhelm Schmeel on the 100th birthday of Georg Ludwig (1826-1910), his great-uncle, the founder of the Heppenheim sanatorium and nursing home, with brief explanations on the genealogy of the Ludwig family. In: Wilhelm Schmeel: The aid association for the mentally ill in Hessen. 1926
Ludwig. George. In: Emil Kraepelin : Memories. Edited by Hanns Hippius , Gerd Peters and Detlev Ploog with the collaboration of Paul Hoff and Alma Kreuter. Springer Verlag, Berlin [u. a.] 1983, p. 237.
Georg Ludwig and psychiatry planning in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In: Irmtraut Sahmland: "Haltestation Philippshospital". A psychiatric center - continuity and change 1535 - 1904 - 2004. A commemorative publication for the 500th birthday of Philip of Hesse. Jonas-Verlag, 2004, p. 131 ff.

Web links

Commons : Georg Ludwig (Psychiatrist) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Time travel: history of psychiatry. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .

Remarks

↑ The reasons for this could not be determined because the disciplinary files of the time in question are missing from the Giessen University Archives. But the punishment could be related to the student unrest in Gießen in August 1846, which led to the military marching in and the entire student body to move out to Staufenberg.
↑ Not listed in the Kösener corps lists.
↑ Dissertation: Attempt to develop the individual forms of madness from special human capacities .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ludwig, Carl Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings Q 3/57
^ ^A ^b Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-096165-2 ( google.de ).
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 38/163.
^ ^A ^b ^c Salina Braun: healing with defects: psychiatric practice at the institutions Hofheim and Siegburg; 1820-1878 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35853-5 ( google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Ludwig, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ludwig, Carl Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1910
Place of death	Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)

[5] The reasons for this could not be determined because the disciplinary files of the time in question are missing from the Giessen University Archives. But the punishment could be related to the student unrest in Gießen in August 1846, which led to the military marching in and the entire student body to move out to Staufenberg.

[6] Not listed in the Kösener corps lists.

[7] Dissertation: Attempt to develop the individual forms of madness from special human capacities .

[Lagis-1] Ludwig, Carl Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings Q 3/57

[Kreuter-3] A ^b Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-096165-2 ( google.de ).

[4] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 38/163.

[Salina2009-8] A ^b ^c Salina Braun: healing with defects: psychiatric practice at the institutions Hofheim and Siegburg; 1820-1878 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35853-5 ( google.de ).