Hans Lungwitz

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Hans Lungwitz (born October 19, 1881 in Gößnitz , † June 24, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German neurologist and writer.

Life

The birthplace of Hans Lungwitz - the Gößnitz city pharmacy
Gravestone in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After studying chemistry and medicine at the University of Halle (Saale) , each of which he completed with a doctorate , he practiced as a doctor in Berlin. He wrote as a neurologist for medical journals and fought for health reform.

In 1926 he joined the NSDAP , but was expelled on May 15, 1932. Lungwitz sympathized with the idea of ​​a revision of the Versailles Peace Treaty ; but he recognized the neurotic in Adolf Hitler .

He developed a psychobiology as an independent philosophical and medical anthropology and said "All so-called psychological properties and functions can be demonstrated as biological, i.e. physical". In 1923 Lungwitz first created the term “psychobiology” and published it for the first time in March 1924 (probably independently of the “ psychobiology ” created by Adolf Meyer around the same time in the USA ). He wrote novels and plays.

Since 1908 he was three years older than Anna Elisabeth born. Winkler married. The marriage remained childless. The death of his wife in 1962 tore a large void in his life, which contributed to his increasing loneliness in the last years of his life.

Hans Lungwitz died on June 24, 1967 at the age of 85 in Berlin's Westend Hospital, where he had been taken five days earlier after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The burial took place on July 8, 1967 at the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend . The grave has been preserved (grave location: II-W-4-Ur 8-238).

The Hans Lungwitz Foundation and the Psychobiological Society cherish his memory .

At the Hans Lungwitz Institute for Psychobiological Analysis and Cognitive Therapy eV the psychobiological theory of neuroses founded by Lungwitz is taught and applied therapeutically.

Works

  • Condensation of cinnamaldehyde with organic bases of the aromatic series . Halle aS: Nietschmann, 1905 (Halle, Univ., Diss., 1905).
  • Metabolism experiments on the child's protein requirement . Hall a. S .: Marhold, 1908 (Halle, Univ., Diss., March 12, 1908).
  • Leader of humanity? Thoughts and Experiences e. Doctor. A social novel from d. Present . Berlin: Adler-Verlag, 1912.
  • The last doctor . Berlin: Adler-Verlag, 1913.
  • The discovery of the soul. General psychobiology . Leipzig: Oldenburg, 1925; 2nd edition Kirchhain: Schmersow, 1932; 3rd – 5th, worked through edition Berlin: de Gruyter, 1947.
  • Psychobiology textbook . Kirchhain: Schmersow, 1933–1956; 2nd edition 1955–1970 ( , overview of the issues, in sections and volumes ).
  • Psychobiological analysis . Edited by JL Clauss u. Ludwig Leonhardt on behalf of the Hans Lungwitz Foundation, Berlin. 8th, through Edition d. "Knowledge therapy for the nervous". Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1977. ISBN 3-7930-9009-4 .
  • Psychobiology of the Neuroses . Revised u. ed. by Reinhold Becker. Excerpt from d. Original work. Original edition ud T .: Textbook of Psychobiology. Berlin: Hans Lungwitz Foundation; Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach [in Komm.], 1980. ISBN 3-7930-9024-8 .

literature

  • Hans-Georg Rahn: Introduction to Psychobiology . Berlin: Hans Lungwitz Foundation, 1973.
  • Johann Ludwig Clauss: Der Neurosenspiegel: A modern neurosis with a healing effect in humorous verses . Ed .: Hans Lungwitz Foundation, Berlin. Graphics: Klaus Endrikat . Aachen: Schmetz in Komm., 1969
  • Johann Ludwig Clauss and Wilhelm Joseph Huppertz: Philosophical terminology of psychobiology. Hans Lugwitz Foundation 1980
  • Rolf-Dieter Dominicus: Hans Lungwitz and his psychobiology, a life and work history . Essen: Verl. Die Blaue Eule, 1993. ISBN 3-89206-522-5
  • Herbert Stelzenmüller: Bibliography of Lungwitz's Psychobiology, Complete Works by Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) . With the support of the Hans Lungwitz Foundation ed. by Herbert Stelzenmüller. Düsseldorf, 1997. ISBN 3-00-001096-3 .
  • Anika Fellermeyer, Dominik Groß: The contribution of Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) to the reform of the health system as reflected in his novel "Führer der Menschheit?" (1911) , Würzburg medical history reports 20 (2001), pp. 406-424.
  • Christine Fischbach, Dominik Groß, Benedikt Eisermann: The psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) in the mirror of reviews , in: Dominik Groß, Sabine Müller (eds.): Are thoughts free? The neurosciences in past and present (= human discourse, 1), Berlin 2007, pp. 265–270. ISBN 978-3-939069-24-9
  • Mattias Miener, Dominik Groß: Literature and Medicine: The literary work of the doctor Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) , in: Dominik Groß, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Gereon Schäfer (Eds.): The construction of science? Contributions to the history of medicine, literature and science , Kassel 2008 (= studies of the AKWG, 3), pp. 133–154. ISBN 978-3-89958-418-9 .
  • Reinhold Becker: The psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 40-66.
  • Rainer Hesse : Small dictionary of psychobiology . Small dictionary of psychobiological terms and definitions, microcosm and macrocosm as symbols and symbol analysis. 1st edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-1-5463-2735-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Lungwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Lungwitz: Textbook of Psychobiology. I: The essence of intuition. Man as a reflex being. From the features and functions. Kirchhain N.-L. 1933, p. 57.
  2. ↑ Reinhold Becker: The psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 40-66; here: p. 40 with note 13.
  3. ↑ Christine Fischbach: The Psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz (1881-1967) as reflected in the reviews (PDF, 7.2 MB). Inaugural dissertation. Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg 2005. pp. 7–9 and 19–20.
  4. ↑ Fischbach: The Psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz . Pp. 19-20. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 491.
personal data
SURNAME Lungwitz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Goessnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1967
Place of death Berlin