Heinrich Obersteiner

Heinrich Obersteiner

The professors at the Medical University of Vienna, chalk drawing by Olga Prager, Vienna 1908–1910. In the Dean's Office of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Edmund von Neusser , Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , Isidor Schnabel , Ferdinand Hochstetter , Alfons Edler von Rosthorn , Anton Weichselbaum , Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli , Heinrich Obersteiner, Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Viktor von Ebner-Rofenstein , Carl Toldt , Gustav Riehl , Ottokar von Chiari , Anton von Frisch , Ernst Fuchs , Anton Freiherr von Eiselberg , Hans Horst Meyer , Ernst Ludwig , Rudolf Chrobak , Theodor Escherich , Alexander Kolisko , Julius von Hochenegg , Arthur Schattenfroh , Carl von Noorden , Emil Zuckerkandl , Richard Paltauf , Gustav Gärtner , Leopold Oser , Josef Moeller , Alois Monti , Julius Mauthner , Viktor Urbantschitsch , August Leopold von Reuss , Adolf von Strümpell , Ernest Finger , Adolf Lorenz , Friedrich Schauta

Heinrich Obersteiner (born November 13, 1847 in Vienna , † November 19, 1922 there ) was an Austrian neurologist .

Life

After graduating with distinction from the Schottengymnasium in Vienna in 1865 , Obersteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna under Josef Hyrtl , Carl von Rokitansky , Josef von Škoda , Theodor Meynert and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke . In 1870 he graduated as Dr. med. , 1871 Dr. chir.

In 1873 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in physiology and pathology of the brain . In the middle of the 1870s he took over the management of the from 1860 by his father, Heinrich Obersteiner (1820-1891), and Max Leidesdorf in (Vienna-) Oberdöbling , Hirschengasse 47 (later named: Krottenbachstraße 4; today: Obersteinergasse 22), Private sanatorium for mentally and nervously ill people founded by Bruno Görgen in 1831 , which was converted into a sanatorium for head injuries and nervous patients during the First World War in 1917 .

In 1880 Obersteiner was appointed Associate Professor of Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System at the University of Vienna . In 1882 he founded the (internationally renowned) University Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System (today Clinical Institute for Neurology at the Medical University Campus Vienna), from 1900 Neurological Institute with a focus on morphological brain research. In 1885 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1898 he was appointed full professor of physiology and pathology of the central nervous system . In 1906 he was given the title of Hofrat , and in 1919 he retired.

Obersteiner, owner of the private sanatorium in Oberdöbling taken over from his father, lived with his family in the institution building until the property was sold (around 1916), where over decades he had built up a library of tens of thousands of volumes to be used by specialist colleagues (and which he last will left to the Institute of Neurology). As a result of the First World War, Obersteiner lost almost all of his fortune. After his death, the barely occupied villa built next to the private clinic had to be sold in order to ensure a more dignified existence for the widow, Helene († 1941), a daughter of Leidesdorf .

Obersteiner was u. a. 1909 founding member and 1909–15 member of the patronage committee (patronage) of the journal "Epilepsia" of the International League Against Epilepsy ( ILAE ). He wrote u. a. the first German-language publication on status epilepticus.

Heinrich Obersteiner was buried on November 22, 1922 in the Döblinger Friedhof in an honorary grave (Group 6, No. 1) dedicated by the City of Vienna .

In 1938 the Obersteinergasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• The bladder and ureters. In: Salomon Stricker : Handbook of the doctrine of the tissues of man and animals . Volume 1. Engelmann, Leipzig 1871, pp. 517-521. - Full text online
• On the status epilepticus. In:  Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift , year 1873, No. 23/1873, pp. 543 / 544–547 / 548. (Online at ANNO ). .
• About the psychological disorders occurring in the course of the tabes dorsualis (part 1/2). In:  Wiener Medical Wochenschrift , year 1875, No. 29/1875, pp. 641/642 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
  • About the psychological disorders occurring in the course of the tabes dorsualis (Part 2/2). In:  Wiener Medical Wochenschrift , year 1875, No. 30/1875, pp. 667/668 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
• A case of brooding. In:  Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift , year 1877, No. 13/1877, pp. 291/292 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
• David Ferrier , - (transl.): The functions of the brain . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1879. - archive.org .
• The relationship of syphilis to dementia paralytica (part 1/2). In:  Wiener Medical Wochenschrift , year 1883, No. 33/1883, pp. 1013/1014 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
  • The relationship of syphilis to dementia paralytica (Part 2/2). In:  Wiener Medical Wochenschrift , year 1883, No. 34/1883, pp. 1037/1038 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• About pruritus hiemalis. In:  Wiener Medical Wochenschrift , year 1884, No. 16/1884, p. 461/462 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• (Main work). Instruction in the study of the structure of the nervous central organs in the healthy and diseased condition . Toeplitz & Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1888. - archive.org .
• The importance of some new research methods for clarifying our knowledge of the structure of the nervous system. In: Works from the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System at the University of Vienna. Edited by Heinrich Obersteiner. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1892, pp. 130–147. - Full text online
• The doctrine of hypnotism. A brief presentation . Breitenstein, Leipzig / Vienna 1893.
• -, Emil Redlich: About the nature and pathogenesis of the tabic posterior cord degeneration (with panel VII and an illustration in the text). In: Works from the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System at the University of Vienna. Edited by Heinrich Obersteiner. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1894, pp. 158–172. - Full text online
• About comparative pathological-anatomical studies of the nervous system. In: Works from the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System at the University of Vienna. Edited by Heinrich Obersteiner. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1894, pp. 171–179. - Full text online
• On the advances in the knowledge of spinal cord diseases. In:  Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift , year 1896, No. 8/1896, pp. 305/305 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
• The variations in the storage of the pyramidal tracks. With five illustrations in the text. In: Works from the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of the Central Nervous System at the University of Vienna. Edited by Heinrich Obersteiner. IX. Notebook. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1902, pp. 417–427. - Full text online
• On the comparative psychology of the different sensory qualities . Borderline issues of nervous and mental life, Volume 37, ZDB -ID 534618-6 . Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1905. - archive.org .
• Emil Redlich , -: The diseases of the spinal cord. In: Wilhelm Ebstein (Red.), Julius Schwalbe: Handbook of practical medicine . Enke, Stuttgart 1906.
• Richard von Krafft-Ebing , -: The progressive general paralysis. Second edition. On the basis of the presentation by formerly R. v. Krafft-Ebing reworked by - . S. n., Vienna / Leipzig 1908.
• Macroscopic examination of the central nervous system. In: Emil Abderhalden (Hrsg.): Handbook of biological working methods . Department 8, Part 1: Theodor Fahr : Methods of Experimental Morphology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1924.

literature

• Otto Marburg :  Heinrich Obersteiner on his 70th birthday. With a portrait sketch by Olga Prager. In:  Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift , Volume 1917, No. 46, November 10, 1917 (LXVII. Volume), pp. 2013/2014 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Otto Marburg: Heinrich Obersteiner. (...) Commemorative speech on the occasion of the funeral meeting of the Association for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna on December 5, 1922. In: Works from the Neurological Institute (Austrian Interacademic Central Institute for Brain Research) at the University of Vienna. Volume XXIV, Leipzig / Vienna 1923, ISSN  0256-1999 , pp. V – XXXII. - Full text online (PDF; 22 MB).
• G. Roth:  Obersteiner Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 194.
• Helmut Gröger:  Obersteiner, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 399 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz Seitelberger : Heinrich Obersteiner and the Neurological Institute: Foundation and History of Neuroscience in Vienna. In: Brain Pathology , 2 (2008) 163-168.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Obersteiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.whonamedit.com
• Walter Mentzel: Loans. Obersteiner Heinrich (1847–1922) founder of the world's oldest neurological institute . In: ub.meduniwien.ac.at .
• Obersteiner, Heinrich . In: Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin / Vienna 1901, columns 1219–1220.
• Otto Marburg:  Hofrat Heinrich Obersteiner. For his seventieth birthday. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 19120/1917, November 13, 1917, p. 4, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908-1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .
2. ^ Albert Gatscher (Red.):  Directory of high school graduates. In:  Annual report of the imperial royal high school on the Scots in Vienna , year 1866, p. 67. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Otto Marburg:  Heinrich Obersteiner †. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Afternoon Gazette, No. 20906/1922, November 20, 1922, p. 6 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ^ Hospitals. (...) b) Private. (...) Leidesdorf Max (...). In: Lehmann's Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger (…) for (…) Vienna . Part II: Evidence. Authorities, public institutes and buildings, private institutions and associations . Eighth year (1870). Hölder, Vienna 1869, p. 25. - (online)
5. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Hofrat Professor Obersteiner. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 15532/1907, November 17, 1907, p. 9, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). as well as
   fire in the sanatorium for head injuries and nervous patients. In:  Deutsches Volksblatt / Deutsches Volksblatt. Radical medium-sized organ / telegraph. Radical Mittelstandsorgan / Deutsches Volksblatt. Daily newspaper for Christian German politics , morning edition, No. 10831/1919 (XXXIth year), March 1, 1919, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ^ Member entry of Heinrich B. Obersteiner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2015.
7. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Hofrat Obersteiner. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 15126/1906, October 1, 1906, p. 7, top center. (Online at ANNO ).
8. ^ Erwin Stransky : Memories of Heinrich Obersteiner on July 31, 1957. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. No. 30/1957, July 26, 1957, ISSN  0043-5325 , pp. 537 f. - Full text online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB). 
9. ↑ Anonymous (the Secretaries): Establishment of an international league against epilepsy. In: Epilepsia . tape 1 , 1909, p. 232-234 .
10. ↑ Obersteiner H .: About the status epilepticus. In: Wien Med Wchschr . tape 23 , 1873, p. Sp 544-547 .
11. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Obersteiner Heinrich, Univ. Prof. Dr. Retrieved July 14, 2013.

Remarks

1. ↑ According to Lehmann 1899, the sanatorium (at Billrothstrasse 69 ) offered beds for 70 patients. - (online)