Hermann Andreas Reimer

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Hermann Andreas Reimer (born May 7, 1825 in Berlin ; † June 8, 1906 in Stuttgart ) was a German doctor who opened the first German sanatorium for epilepsy patients in Görlitz in 1855 .

Hermann Reimer was the son of the publisher Georg Andreas Reimer and his wife Wilhelmine. He studied medicine in Berlin, Heidelberg and Halle / Saale. In 1854 he was given a “concession to establish a sanatorium for patients suffering from epilepsy” in Görlitz. The sanatorium for epileptics was opened on August 1st, 1855 on Obermühlberg in Görlitz, at that time in a "lonely rural" area. The institution was located in a villa in the "typical Italian style" at the time, which was built around the middle of the 19th century.

The sanatorium was initially designed for 12 sick people who should come from "wealthy families". They had to undertake to stay in the institution for at least six months, in which they were then entitled to two rooms. The costs of 30 Friedrichsd`or quarterly had to be paid in advance. The therapy consisted, among other things, of the "use of cold, tepid and warm baths" and the "prescription of mineral and vegetable substances". A guard was hired for every two sick people who looked after the inmates day and night.

Reimer's calculations on wealthy epileptic patients did not work out, however, and soon he was taking in mentally ill patients of all kinds. His best-known patient was Wilhelmine Herzlieb , who died in Görlitz in 1865. In 1867 Reimer sold the institution to Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum , who gave the sanatorium a "world reputation". Later, in 1887, Reimer settled in Stuttgart, where he practiced as a doctor until 1901. He died in Stuttgart, his grave in the Stuttgart Prague cemetery was leveled in 1962.

Publications

  • Climatic winter health resorts , 3rd, revised. u. heavily probable edition, Berlin, G. Reimer, 1881.
  • Handbook of special climatotherapy and balneotherapy with special consideration for Central Europe. For use by doctors , Berlin, Reimer, 1889.
  • Climatic summer resorts. Guide for doctors and laypeople , Berlin, Reimer 3rd edition. 1897

literature

  • Helmut Heintel: Hermann Andreas Reimer and his "Heilanstalt für Epileptische" in Görlitz , which opened in 1855 , in: Medizinhistorisches Journal, Vol. 17, H 1/2 (1982), pages 156-160.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Helmut Heintel, it was the first institution in the world specifically for epilepsy sufferers. A second institution in Germany was the one in Tettnang, which opened in 1862. In the United States, the first institution was opened in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1891. See Heintel literature, page 157, footnote 3
  2. ↑ Quote from Heintel
  3. ↑ so Helmut Heintel, see literature
personal data
SURNAME Reimer, Hermann Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1906
Place of death Stuttgart