Thank God Heinrich Bergmann
Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann (born June 12, 1781 in Erichshagen , † October 29, 1861 in Hildesheim ) was a German psychiatrist .
Life
Bergmann studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After training in pathological anatomy with François Broussais and René Laënnec in France , he became a poor doctor in Celle in 1804 . In the same year he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the dissertation on the beginnings of a comparative anatomy . In 1810 he became a doctor at the breeding and madhouse in Celle. After exploring Germany, France and Italy, he set up a sanatorium in a former monastery in the St. Michaeliskloster in Hildesheim in 1827, and in 1833 a nursing home in the neighboring St. Magdalenenkloster . 1848 a new building was in the pen Bartholomäi to Sülte added as a nursing home. In 1855 he retired.
Bergmann was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1837 and a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy in 1844 . Hildesheim granted him honorary citizenship in 1854 .
Theoretical concepts
He became known for his peculiar anatomical direction, which he laid down in several writings. Starting from the old view that in the fumes of the ventricles, the Pneuma sit, he described namely certain delicate myelinated fibers in the cerebral ventricles as chordae, which he called emanations conceived of the Pneuma. He assigned certain capacities to these chordal systems, with which they should have a compelling effect on the spirit and condition the laws of soul life. However, his mystical theory was not recognized by his contemporaries.
In 1846 Bergmann was the first to describe a case of auto-enucleation as a psychiatric phenomenon .
Fonts (selection)
- New research on the internal organization of the brain. 1831.
- Investigations into the structure of the medullary and cortical matter of the large and small brain. In: Müller's archive. 1841.
literature
- Friedrich Hoffmann : Obituary. In: General journal for psychiatry . Vol. 19 (1862), pp. 128-140.
- Alma Kreuter: Bergmann, Gottlob Heinrich. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Saur, Munich 1996, Vol. 1, pp. 101-103 ( online ).
- Otto Mönkemöller : Gottlob Heinrich Bergmann 1781–1861. In: German Irrenärzte: Individual images of their life and work. Volume 1, published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1921, pp. 123-128, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-662-41440-8_25 .
- Friedrich Karl Stahl : Bergmann, Gottlob Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 392.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History of the AMEOS Clinic Hildesheim. Ameos website , accessed January 12, 2014.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 37.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergmann, thank God Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erichshagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1861 |
| Place of death | Hildesheim |