Hans Heinrich Wieck

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Hans Heinrich Wieck (born August 23, 1918 in Hamburg ; died January 2, 1980 ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist . From 1967 to 1980 he headed the psychiatric department at the Erlangen University Hospital .

Career

After studying medicine , Wieck initially worked from 1946 to 1950 as an assistant doctor to Werner Scheid in the neurological department of the Hamburg-Heidberg hospital. With Kurt Schneider in Heidelberg he then received a psychiatric training. When Dr. med. Wieck completed his habilitation on February 4, 1953 at the medical faculty of the University of Cologne with a thesis on the psychology and psychopathology of memories. This was followed by a teaching position at the University of Cologne, during which he was given an extraordinary professorship in 1957 and an extraordinary professorship in 1962, while taking over the management of the research department for diseases of the nervous system. In 1957/58 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1966 Wieck moved to the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen , where he was appointed head of the mental hospital as the successor to the retired Fritz Flügel .

Hans Heinrich Wieck coined the term transit syndrome as a collective term for all psychopathological symptoms of physical cause that usually regress within a few hours to days without medical therapy.

In addition to his main medical task and the main authorship and co-authorship of numerous specialist publications, Hans Heinrich Wieck was a member of various committees: he was a member of the Grand Senate for Medical Training and the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association , as well as an expert at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions .

"His great achievement: The teaching of psychopathometry , the quantitative measurement methods of psychological disorders, in particular disorders of consciousness and memories, is constantly being expanded upon in many books."

- 1980

He died of a pulmonary embolism caused by a leg thrombosis.

literature

  • Felix Böcker (Ed.): Research at the University Psychiatric Clinic Erlangen. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of HH Wieck. incl. bibliography on pp. 178–207, Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1980, ISBN 3-7945-0747-9 . contents

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Georg Mertens, Georg Przuntek: Pathological excitability of the nervous system and its treatment. (Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology, Volume 1) Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1980, originally published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1980, ISBN 978-3-540-10214-4 , p. XXIX (Fig on p. XXVII).
  2. ↑ Who is who? The German who's who. XXI. Edition 1981. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-7950-2002-6 , p. 1308.
  3. ^ Wieck, Hans Heinrich In: Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 1976. Bio-bibliographical directory of German-speaking scientists of the present, 12th edition, Volume II N – Z, Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p 3493.
  4. ↑ Published by Thieme, Stuttgart 1955.
  5. ↑ a b Who is who? The German who's who. XIX. Edition 1976/77. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7973-0296-7 , p. 1088.
  6. ↑ Katrin Reiss: Delirium, apoplexy, death or cognitive impairment after coronary bypass surgery, depending on the number and type of medication taken preoperatively. Dissertation, Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2012, p. 8 ff. Online
personal data
SURNAME Wieck, Hans Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wieck, Hans-Heinrich; Wieck, Hans H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1980