Hans Kurella

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Hans Georg Kurella (born February 20, 1858 in Mainz , † October 25, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German psychiatrist . A prolific author and translator himself, he advocated criminal anthropology in Germany , as it was shaped primarily by the Italian psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso .

Life

Kurella studied medicine in Würzburg and from 1876 in Berlin . He received his doctorate from Hugo Kronecker in Würzburg in 1880 , but in 1879 he already held a position as Kronecker's assistant at the Physiological Institute in Berlin. From 1881 to 1882 worked at the Kahlbaumschen private institution in Görlitz as an assistant for psychiatry. After a few trips through America and Europe in 1882 and 1883, he was at various insane asylums ( Owinsk , Allenberg , Kreuzburg and Brieg ). In 1895, Kurella first settled in Breslau as a neurologist and electrotherapist . A year later he moved to Brieg, where he opened a family pension for nervous and nervous children. In 1905 he became the doctor in charge of the Ehrenwall private sanatorium in Ahrweiler . From 1911 he practiced as a doctor alternately in Bonn and Bad Kudawa . He did military service in World War I and died in 1916 after returning from the front.

Kurella was a prolific writer and translator. From 1890 he edited the Centralblatt for Neurology and Psychiatry . He founded the series of publications library for social science , the journal for electrotherapy and medical electrical engineering as well as with Leopold Löwenfeld in 1900 the series border questions of the nervous and mental life . In addition to his own numerous work in the fields of anthropology, psychiatry and social science, Kurella translated the writings of representatives of the criminal anthropological school , in particular by Cesare Lombroso , Enrico Ferri , Raffaele Garofalo , Scipio Sighele and Havelock Ellis . Kurella himself was a follower of the Lombroso doctrine of the "born criminal", which he describes in his work Natural History of the Criminal. Basic features of criminal anthropology and criminal psychology (1893).

Kurella had six children, including the writer Alfred Kurella (1895–1975) and the translator Tania Stern (1904–1995).

Fonts

  • Cesare Lombroso and the natural history of the criminal. Verl.-Anst. and Dr. (formerly JF Richter), Hamburg 1892.
  • Natural history of the criminal. Basics of criminal anthropology and criminal psychology for forensic doctors, psychiatrists, lawyers and administrators; with numerous anatomical images and criminal portraits. Enke, Stuttgart 1893.
  • The Prussian insane being in the light of the Mellage trial. In: Centralblatt für Nervenheilkunde und Psychiatrie, 18 (1895), 337-344. 1895.
  • Housing shortages and housing misery, their influence on morality, their origins in the usury of the soil and their combating through democratic city administration. , Frankfurt a. M. 1900.
  • The new customs tariff and the laborer's standard of living. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, s. l. 1902.
  • The Limits of Sanity and Criminal Anthropology. For lawyers, doctors and educated laypeople. Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle as 1903.
  • Electrical health damage on the telephone. A contribution to electropathology. Barth, Leipzig 1905.
  • Cesare Lombroso as a person and researcher. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1910.
  • Anthropology and Criminal Law. 2 lectures. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1912.
  • The intellectuals and society. A contribution to the natural history of gifted families. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1913.

literature

  • Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio: The reception of the criminal anthropological theories of Cesare Lombroso in Germany from 1880-1914. Zugl .: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., Matthiesen, Husum 1995, ISBN 3786840709 .
  • Philipp Gutmann: Hans Kurella's 'Natural History of the Criminal' (1893) as an apology for Cesare Lombroso's teaching of the 'Uomo delinquente'. In: Würzburg medical history reports. 24, 2005, pp. 363-377.
  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 2, Saur, Munich [inter alia] 1996, p. 808 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Kurella, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurella, Hans Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1916
Place of death Dresden