Hans Christoffel

Hans Christoffel (born June 27, 1888 in Aarau ; † April 8, 1959 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Christoffel grew up in Basel . He studied medicine at the University of Basel (with a semester abroad at the University of Vienna ) and graduated with a state examination and doctorate . He worked as a volunteer at the general polyclinic of the Basel Citizens' Hospital . From 1914 to 1920 he was an assistant doctor at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich. He then opened a psychiatric practice in Basel.

From 1946 to 1948 Christoffel was President of the Swiss Society for Psychology .

In 1916 Christoffel married Margarethe Schmidt, daughter of the geologist Carl Schmidt . They had four children.

Publications (selection)

Hyperglycemia and glycosuria after intravenous grief glucose injections. In: Journal for all of experimental medicine. Vol. III (1914), H. 2 (dissertation).
The influence of sexuality on character formation in young men: Lecture given at the delegates' conference of the friends of the young man on May 28, 1923 in Olten. Werner-Riehm, Basel 1923.
Drive and culture. On social psychology, physiology and psychohygiene of urinary urgency with special consideration of enuresis. Schwabe, Basel 1944.
Human developmental psychology sketches. AZ press, Aarau 1945.
Basics of uroscopy . In: Gesnerus . Vol. 10, No. 3-4, 1953, pp. 89-122.

Hans Christoffel on his 70th birthday on June 27, 1958. Basler Psychologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Basel 1958.
Willi Kaiser: Life and work of the Basel psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hans Christoffel, 1888–1959. Juris, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-260-04969-X .
Necrology: Dr. med. and Dr. med. hc Hans Christoffel (1888–1959). In: Swiss Archive for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry . Vol. 87 (1961), p. 387 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Christoffel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aarau
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1959