Heinrich Vogt (neurologist)

Heinrich Vogt (born April 23, 1875 in Regensburg , † September 24, 1957 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist , balneologist and rheumatologist .

Life

Vogt was born the son of a high school professor and later a high school director. As a student at the high school near Sankt Stephan (Augsburg) , he enjoyed a humanistic education that also shaped his medical-scientific publications. After graduating from high school , he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg and the Georg August University in Göttingen . He put 1899 in Goettingen the state exam and was in the same year in Heidelberg with a doctorate in Vincenz Czerny PhD . He worked as an assistant at psychiatric clinics in Göttingen, Zurich and Frankfurt am Main .

In 1907 he qualified as a professor for neurology and psychiatry in Göttingen, and in 1909 he was appointed associate professor . In the same year he moved to the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . There he accepted the position of director of the department of psychiatry. In 1911 he became director of the neurological sanatorium "Nerotal" in Wiesbaden . In 1925 he moved to Bad Pyrmont, where he increasingly devoted himself to balneology. In 1935 he became full professor of balneology at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau and head of the newly founded Reichsanstalt für das Deutsche Bäderwesen.

After the Second World War , Vogt returned from captivity to Bad Pyrmont, where he died in 1957.

neurology

Vogt published several papers on tuberous sclerosis and the Vogt-Spielmeyer-Stock disease named after him . Vogt was one of the first physicians to describe the "familial amaurotic idiocy", later called Vogt-Spielmeyer-Stock disease ( neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis ). He published two papers on this in 1905 and 1911. Vogt set a milestone in the history of tuberous sclerosis in 1908 with the creation of a symptom triad , also called "Vogt's triad", which made it possible for the first time to make a clinical diagnosis of this disease during his lifetime. Previously, this could only be achieved through an autopsy . The Vogtian triad includes epilepsy , intellectual disability and adenoma sebaceum .

Balneology

For the first time Vogt devoted to the essay "Vegetative system and skin from the balneological point of view" of balneology . He strove for greater recognition of balneology as an equivalent science within the other medical disciplines. For this purpose he founded the magazine “Der Balneologe” in 1934, which was published until 1944 under his direction. In 1927, in an expert opinion, Vogt had suggested to the Prussian Ministry of Welfare the need for a central office for bathing. However, due to the increasingly poor economic situation, this project could not be implemented. It was not until 1935 that the central institution in Breslau was realized and Vogt was appointed its director. In 1933, Vogt succeeded Eduard Dietrich as chairman of the German Society for Combating Rheumatism and the German Society for Climate and Swimming Science.

Fonts

• Paralysis of the facial nerve in connection with otitis media acuta: A contribution to the theory of otogenic facial paralysis. 1898, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-ubr10751-7 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1898).
• About familial amaurotic idiocy and related clinical pictures. Monthly journal for psychiatry and neurology 18 (1905), pp. 161–171, 310–357.
• About the anatomy, the nature and the origin of microcephalic malformations, along with. Contributions on the developmental disorders of the architecture of the central nervous system (= work from the brain anatomical institute in Zurich. H. 1). Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1905.
• For the diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis. Journal Erforschung Jugendlichen Schwachsinns 2 (1907), pp. 1–15.
• Childhood epilepsy is presented with a special focus on educational, teaching and forensic issues. Karger, Berlin 1910.
• with Heinrich Klose : Clinic and Biology of the Thymus Gland with special consideration of its relationship to the bone and nervous system. Laupp, Tübingen 1910.
• Familial amaurotic idiocy, histological and histopathological studies. Archiv für Kinderheilkunde 51 (1911), pp. 1–125.
• with Wilhelm Weygandt (ed.): Handbook of research and care of adolescent dementia with special consideration of the special psychological conditions in adolescence. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1911.
• Epilepsy , in: Gustav Aschaffenburg (ed.): Handbuch der Psychiatrie. Special part, Dept. 1, Franz Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1915, pp. 51–271.
• as editor: Handbook of Therapy of Nervous Diseases , 2 volumes. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1916.
• The healing springs of Bad Pyrmont: natural history, science and application. A guide for doctors. Only volume 1 appeared: The Baths. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1928.
• Cure in Bad Pyrmont. Hameln undated (1931).
• The balneologist. Journal of All Physical and Dietetic Therapy. Berlin 1934–1944, so that publication was discontinued.
• as publisher: The importance of the treatment of sick people in spas and health resorts for medical practice: Dedicated to the medical profession at home and abroad. Federation of German Transport Associations and Baths, Bad Pyrmont 1935.
• Introduction to balneology and medical climatology (spa and climatic medicine). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1945, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-662-01398-4 ; 2nd edition, with Walther Amelung : Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1952.

literature

• M. Haltia: Heinrich Vogt. In: Sara E. Mole et al. (Ed.): The Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (Batten Disease). 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, p. 16 ( online ).
• Torsten Hewelt: The history of the German Society for Rheumatology 1927 to 2007. Projects, Halle (Saale) 2009.
• Gerhard Hüfner: The scientific associations in the German spa system 1878-1994. Flöttmann, Gütersloh 1994.
• Harold Reich, Adolf Weindl: Heinrich Vogt , in: Stephen Ashwal: The Founders of Child Neurology. Norman, San Francisco 1990, pp. 614-619 ( online ).
• Ferdinand Scheminzky : Heinrich Vogt. Journal for Applied Bath and Climate Medicine 5 (1958), pp. 2-12.