Gustav Specht

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Street sign for Gustav-Specht-Straße in Erlangen

Gustav Specht (born December 25, 1860 in Schweinfurt , † October 24, 1940 in Erlangen ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor .

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Specht graduated from high school in Schweinfurt. He studied human medicine in Würzburg and Munich and became a member of the AGV Munich student association in the winter semester of 1879/80 . In 1884 he received his doctorate in Munich.

In 1885 he became a doctor at the Erlangen sanatorium and in 1897 an associate professor . In 1903 he was appointed First Director of the newly founded University Psychiatric Clinic and Full Professor of Psychiatry at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . In the academic year 1913/1914 he was prorector of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität.

Specht researched the fear effect in manic-depressive insanity and paranoia as a core question of psychiatric self-definition.

Honors

The AMV Fridericiana Erlangen made Specht an honorary philistine in 1911.

In 1962, the city ​​of Erlangen named Gustav-Specht-Strasse on the northeastern outskirts after him.

literature

  • Karl Eduard Haas: The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the Erlangen student choir. Self-published, Erlangen 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Birgit Braun: Gustav Nikolaus Specht (December 25, 1860– October 24, 1940) ( memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Poster presentation, Congress of the DGPPN , November 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 122.
  3. ↑ Catalog card for the dissertation ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Quart catalog of BSB Munich , accessed on March 12, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quart_ifk.bsb-muenchen.de
  4. ↑ Archive of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität - (Pro-) Rectors / Presidents of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität , website of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, accessed on March 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Karl Eduard Haas: The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the student choir in Erlangen. Self-published, Erlangen 1982.
  6. ^ Streets in Erlangen , Hedayat Hedayati's private website, accessed on March 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Woodpecker, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1940
Place of death gain