Hildebrand Richard Teirich

Hildebrand Richard Teirich (often HR Teirich ; * May 7, 1907 in Vienna , † after 1978) was a doctor , neurologist and psychotherapist who played an "important role" in music therapy .

Teirich did his doctorate in medicine in Vienna and played “ clavichord and spinet ”. He was in charge of the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic at the University Neurological Clinics in Innsbruck (1947/48) and Graz (1948–50). In 1948 he discovered "through contacts with a London psychiatric hospital the possibility of gymnastics and music making in the treatment plan". From 1953 he was a specialist in nervous diseases in private practice in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Fonts (selection)

• (as ed.) Music in Medicine. Contributions to music therapy. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1958.

literature

• Kurt Reichl: Lexicon of personalities and companies. Styria. Leykam-Verlag, Graz 1955.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hildebrand Richard Teirich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hildebrand Richard Teirich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• List of publications in the Bioinfobank

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 13th edition (1980). Vol. 3, p. 3923.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Elena Fitzthum: Formative aspects and influences on the way to institutionalized music therapy in Vienna from 1945 to 1960 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 112 kB). 2005, p. 6 f.