Gottlieb Burckhardt

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Gottlieb Burckhardt

Gottlieb Burckhardt (born December 24, 1836 in Basel ; † February 6, 1907 there ) was a Swiss psychiatrist , neurologist and psychosurgeon .

Live and act

Burckhardt studied medicine at the Universities of Basel , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1860 he received his doctorate in Basel with a work that he had done in Göttingen at the suggestion of Karl Ewald Hasse under the direction of Otto Beckmann . In 1862 he qualified as a professor for internal medicine and neurology . In the following time he worked as a general practitioner . Increasingly interested in neurology, he became a secondary doctor under Rudolf Schärer at the Bernese insane asylum in Waldau in 1873 . From 1876 he taught as a private lecturer for psychiatry and nervous diseases at the University of Bern . In 1882 he took over the management of the Préfargier insane asylum in Marin . He later returned to Basel, where he managed the Sonnhalde Clinic in Riehen .

For the therapy of psychoses he removed certain areas of the cerebral cortex from patients in the Préfargier asylum. His attempts were received primarily in the United States.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the structure and behavior of the epithelium of the lower urinary tract in normal and pathological conditions. Basel 1859 (dissertation).
  • Physiological diagnosis of nervous diseases. Engelmann, Leipzig 1875, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-21653 .
  • The doctrine of the functional centers of the brain and their relation to psychology and psychiatry. Trial lecture in the auditorium of the Bern University of Applied Sciences on March 4, 1876. Reimer, Berlin 1876, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-17196 .
  • About cortical excisions, as a contribution to the operative therapy of psychoses. Reimer, Berlin 1891, DOI: 10.3931 / e-rara-17197 , also in: General magazine for psychiatry and psychological-forensic medicine. Volume 47, 1891, pp. 463-548.

literature

  • Hagenbach: Nekrolog. In: Correspondence sheet for Swiss doctors . 37: 257-260 (1907).
  • Christian Müller : Gottlieb Burckhardt, the father of topectomy. In: The American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 117, 1960, pp. 461-463.
  • Burckhardt, Gottlieb. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 1996, vol. 1, p. 211 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Dominik Gross : Gottlieb Burckhardt's (1836–1907) contribution to psychosurgery from a medical-historical and ethical point of view. In: Gesnerus . Vol. 55 (1998), pp. 221-248 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Groß : Burckhardt, Gottlieb. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 220 f.
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Psychiatrist, neurologist and psychosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1907
Place of death Basel