Horatio Bryan Donkin

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Horatio Bryan Donkin (1902). Oil painting by Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)

Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin (born February 1, 1845 in Blackheath, Kent ; died July 26, 1927 in London ) was a British physician and neurologist .

Life

Horatio Bryan Donkin was the eldest son of the engineer Bryan Donkin. He attended "Blackheath Proprietary School" and "The Queen's College" in Oxford . In 1867 he graduated from there. He studied medicine at the “St. Thomas's Hospital “at the University of Oxford (Bachelor of Medicine 1873). In December 1871 he received the Master of Arts and in 1873 the MD. From 1874 he read about clinical medicine at Westminster Hospital . In 1880 he became a member of the FRCP. In 1893 he wrote his work "The diseases of childhood", which was published simultaneously in London and New York. He also taught medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1898 he was appointed commissioner of the prison system. In 1911 he was knighted and Honorary Royal College of Psychiatrists.

In his first marriage he was married to Augusta, daughter of Count di Langhi. Second marriage to Marie, daughter of William Reston from North Carolina. He was buried in Nunhead Cemetery .

He was the attending physician of Eleanor Marx , Jenny Marx and Karl Marx . Donkin attended Marx's funeral service on March 17, 1883 at Highgate Cemetery .

Works

  • A Note on Thought Reading . In: Popular Science Monthly. Bans September 21, 1882. Digitized
  • Ed .: The Westminster Hospital reports . J. & A. Churchill, London 1885 ff.
  • The dangers of medical specialism . In: Fortnightly review . 1885, July, pp. 67-78.
  • The diseases of childhood, medical . Charles Griffin, London 1893. Digitized
  • On inheritance of mental characters. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London. Adlard and Son, Bartholomew Press, London 1910. (= The Harveian Oration )
  • Edward Birchall Sherlock: The Feeble-Minded. A guide to study and practice. With an introductory note by Sir HB Donkin . Macmillan & Co., London 1911.
  • Charles Mercier: Crime & criminals. Being the jurisprudence of crime, medical, biological, and psychological. With an introduction by Sir Bryan Donkin . University of London Press, London 1918.
  • George Archdall O'Brien Reid : Prevention of Venereal Disease. With an introductory chapter by Sir H. Bryan Donkin. William Heinemann, London 1920.
  • Peter Macbride: Psycho-analysts Analyzed. With an introduction by Sir H. Bryan Donkin . William Heinemann, London 1924.
  • The Samuel Wilks Fifteen Club. A record from its Foundation in February 1885, to May 27, 1926 . J. Ball, London 1926.

Letters

  • HB Donkin to Marx March 9, 1881.
  • HB Donkin to Marx March 31, 1881.
  • HB Donkin to Friedrich Engels December 10, 1883.
  • HB Donkin to Friedrich Engels November 14, 1884.

literature

  • Joseph Foster: Alumni Oxonienses. The Members of the University of Oxford 1715-1886 . Parker and Company, Oxford 1888, p. 378.
  • A list of the fellows, members, extra-licentiates and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London . Royal College of Physicians, London 1913, pp. 7, 14, 355. Digitized
  • Macleod Yearsley: Sir Bryan Donkin . Nature 120, p. 306 of August 27, 1927. Digitized
  • Horatio Bryan Donkin. Obituary . In: British Medical Journal , August 6, 1927, p. 240.
  • Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin, MA, MDOxon., FRCP In: The British Journal of Psychiatry . January 1928, 74 (304.)
  • Erhard Kiehnbaum: Two unknown documents by Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx-Aveling from 1886 . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 12th Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990, p. 273 ff. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oxford University Calendar, Oxford 1873, p. 235.
  2. ^ Oxford University Gazette , December 12, 1871, p. 388.
  3. ^ Westminster Hospital . In: Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert (Eds.): The London Encyclopedia . Macmillian, London 1993, pp. 978 f. ISBN 0-333-57688-8 .
  4. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 28469, p. 1462 , February 24, 1911.
  5. ↑ Thomas Bewley: Madness to Mental Illness. A History of the Royal College of Psychiatrists . Online archive 34, Honorary Members and Fellows. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rcpsych.ac.uk
  6. ↑ Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin (1845-1927)
  7. ^ Marx-Engels works . Volume 35, pp. 11, 14, 21, 26, 27, 46. 64, 177, 178, 188, 196, 206, 218, 241, 245, 262, 286, 289, 307, 371, 376, 377, 397 , 452, 457, 459.
  8. ↑ Their names live on through the centuries. Condolences and necrologists on the deaths of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 92.
  9. ^ International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam. Marx-Engels Papers D 1048.
  10. ^ International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam. Marx-Engels Papers D 1049.
  11. ^ International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam. Marx-Engels-Papers L 1162.
  12. ^ International Institute for Social History , Amsterdam. Marx-Engels-Papers L 1163.
  13. ^ Friedrich Engels to Eleanor Marx-Aveling March 25, 1886; Friedrich Engels to Eleanor Marx-Aveling February 9, 1886; Eleanor Marx-Aveling to Horatio Bryan Donkin February 8, 1886.
personal data
SURNAME Donkin, Horatio Bryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donkin, Sir Bryan; Donkin, H. Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackheath, Kent
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1927
Place of death London