Georg Voss

This article deals with the psychiatrist and neurologist Georg Voss. For people with similarly written names see Georg Voss .

Georg Voss (born September 17, ^jul. / 29. September  1872 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 17 September 1964 in Dusseldorf ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist , who worked in Greifswald and Dusseldorf.

Life

Voss completed his medical studies in the years from 1890 to 1896 at the University of Tartu ; here he was a member of the Corporation Livonia . In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in 1897. med. From 1897 to 1905 he conducted research in Leipzig with Paul Julius Möbius , in Heidelberg with Emil Kraepelin , in Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg. As a military doctor, he took part in the Russo-Japanese war in Harbin and Chelyabinsk. From 1906 to 1910 he headed the psychiatric and neurological clinic at the University of Greifswald , where he completed his habilitation in 1907. From 1911 he worked in Düsseldorf, where he became associate professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf in 1923 .

In 1898 he married Hedwig von Peltzer, with whom he had five children; in 1926 in second marriage to Grete Wörner.

Fonts

• Anatomical and experimental studies on the changes in the spinal cord in anemia. In: German Archive for Clinical Medicine. 58, 1897, pp. 489-522.
• About the fluctuations in mental work performance. Heidelberg 1898.
• Experiences and thoughts of a Russian military doctor, 1904–1905. Schlemminger, Leipzig 1905.
• Clinical contributions to the doctrine of hysteria, based on observations from northwestern Russia. Fischer, Jena 1909.
• Hypnotism, its essence, handling and significance for the general practitioner. Marhold, Halle a, p. 1907.
• Newer Views on the Nature of Hysteria. 1912.
• The etiology of the psychoses. Leipzig 1915.

literature

• R. Pfrepper, G. Pfrepper: Experimental work of Russian physicians at the Leipzig University in the second half of the 19th century. In: NTM Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 14 (3), 2006, pp. 162-173.
• Biographical album of the St. Petersburg Doctors Association 1859–1909. Published on the 50th anniversary of the association March 31, 1909. Typography of the “St. Petersburg Herald ", St. Petersburg 1909, p. 105.
• Wilhelm Lenz ( arrangement ): Album Livonorum. Lübeck 1972, No. 1027