Ivan Bloch

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Ivan Bloch
The Sex Life of Our Time , 1907
Josef Altmann: Books from Iwan Bloch's library (ca.1922)

Iwan Bloch (also Ivan Bloch; born April 8, 1872 in Delmenhorst , † November 19, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German physician , dermatovenerologist and sex researcher . He was one of the founders of sexology as a scientific discipline.

Life

Bloch came from a Jewish family. His father Louis Bloch (1846-1892) was a cattle dealer born in Bassum , who had five children with his wife Rosa Lisette Rosette, born Meyer (1845-1921). Ivan was the oldest child. From 1881 to Easter 1886 he went to the elementary and principal school in Delmenhorst, which at that time belonged to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . He then moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hanover , where he lived with relatives and completed his Abitur. In 1891 he started at the University of Bonn with the medical and philosophical studies . He then moved to the University of Heidelberg , then to Berlin and finally to the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in 1896 and received his license to practice medicine . The topic of the dissertation was: "On the influence of iodine, thyroiodine, thyraden on the metabolism" , his doctoral supervisor was the physiologist Adolf Fick .

In 1897 Bloch moved his center of life to Charlottenburg . At that time he deepened his clinical knowledge at various Berlin hospitals. Here venereology and dermatology were the focus of his clinical interest. Finally, in 1898, he settled in an independent practice. In the Joachimsthaler Strasse 9, corner of Kurfürstendamm , in Berlin, he then opened a practice as a “specialist for skin and sexual disorders” after moving several times.

In the year of his doctorate, he married Rosa Heinemann. The marriage made him father of his only son Robert; In 1905 the marriage was divorced, the son stayed with the mother. He later married Lisbeth Kühn. He died of complications from his diabetes mellitus . He found his final resting place in the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in field A4.

Act

His research approach was to combine cultural and medical history.

In 1907, in the monograph The Sexual Life of Our Time, Bloch introduced the term sexology, probably first published in 1905 by the writer and life reformer Karl Vanselow . In the preface to this book, he defines sexology as an interdisciplinary discipline. Bloch writes, “that a purely medical conception of sexual life, although it will always form the core of sexology, is not sufficient to do justice to the many-sided relationships of the sexual to all areas of human life. In order to appreciate the full importance of love for individual and social life and for the cultural development of mankind, it must be included in the science of man in general, in which and into which all other sciences are united, general biology , anthropology and ethnology , philosophy and psychology , medicine, the history of literature and that of culture in their entirety. "

Bloch wrote, also under pseudonyms ( Eugen Dühren , Albert Hagen , Veriphantor , Gerhard von Welsenburg ), moral history and sex science works. On July 27, 1908, he was a founding member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society , together with Magnus Hirschfeld , Heinrich Körber and Otto Juliusburger at the suggestion of the psychoanalyst Karl Abraham . He had extensive correspondence with Sigmund Freud .

The estate of Iwan Bloch is in the archive of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society in Berlin .

Fonts (in selection)

Eugen Dühren: Rétif de la Bretonne (1906)

Monographs

  • Contributions to the etiology of psychopathia sexualis . Dohrn, Dresden 1902 ( digitized version ).
  • English moral history. (Formerly: Sex life in England. ) 2 volumes, 1912, as Dühren .
  • The fetishism. (1903, as' eriphantor)
  • Errors of human love. (no year, as veriphantor)
  • The Marquis de Sade and his time. A contribution to the cultural and moral history of the 18th century. With special reference to the doctrine of Psychopathia Sexualis. 1900, as Dühren. 1st edition Barsdorf, Berlin 1900; Max von Harrwitz, Berlin 1904; 5th edition Barsdorf, Berlin 1915 (series: Studies on the history of human sex life, vol. 1.). Inges. 7 ed. During his lifetime. Last 1978: Heyne, Munich, ISBN 3-453-50124-1 .
    • in English (excerpts): Marquis de Sade. His life and his works. Translated by James Bruce. Castle / Book Sales, New York 1948 (128 pp.). Further translations into Frz. and chip.
  • New research on the Marquis de Sade and his time. With special consideration of de Sade's sexual philosophy based on the newly discovered original manuscript of his main work. (as durring); Reprint 1965; again VDM Verlag Dr. Müller , Saarbrücken 2007.
  • The prostitution. (Volume 1, 1912; 2nd volume posthumously 1925).
  • Eugen Dühren: Rétif library. List of French and German editions and writings by and about Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne . 1906
  • Eugen Dühren: Rétif de la Bretonne. The man, the writer, the reformer. Max Harrwitz, Berlin 1906.
  • The sex life of our time in its relationship with modern culture. Louis Marcus publishing house, Berlin 1907; and further editions ( digital version of the 4th edition from 1908 ).
  • The sexual osphresiology. (1906, as Albert Hagen)
  • The origin of syphilis . A medical and cultural historical investigation. Fischer, Jena 1901 ( digitized version ).
  • The first appearance of syphilis (epidemic of lust) in the European cultural world. Appreciated in its world-historical significance, presented according to the beginning, course and probable end. Fischer, Jena 1904 (digitized version)
  • The oversight of women in the past and present and the views of doctors, naturalists and philosophers about it. (1899, as Gerhard von Welsenburg)
  • Project Gutenberg-DE : Library of Sexology. 36 classics as facsimile on DVD. Hille & Partner ISBN 978-3-86511-524-9 .
  • The practice of skin diseases. Unna's teaching for students and doctors. Berlin / Vienna 1908 ( digitized version ).

Essays

  • About the surgeon Ido Wolff (1615–1695). In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , 1898.
  • Love and culture. In: Maternity leave. Journal for the reform of sexual ethics , Federal publication organ for maternity protection , ed. by Helene Stöcker . Frankfurt a. M. 1905, No. 1, pp. 26-32 and Volume 2, pp. 65-74 .
  • The individualization of love. In: Maternity leave. Journal for the Reform of Sexual Ethics, Issue 7, 1906, pp. 274–282 u. No. 8, 1906, pp. 310-320 .
  • The primitive roots of prostitution. In: Journal for Combating Venereal Diseases, XII. Volume, 1912, pp. 143-160.
  • About the Freudian teaching. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft, Volume III (April 1916 to March 1917), pp. 57–63. (Originally a lecture by Bloch at the meeting of the “Medical Society for Sexual Science” in Berlin on March 17, 1916.)
  • History of skin diseases in recent times. In: Max Neuburger, Julius Pagel (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 3. G. Fischer, Jena 1905, pp. 393–463 (digitized version )

Publication of books

  • "Sexual Psychological Library" series
    • Alexandre de Tilly: The Memoirs of the Count of Tilly. Marcus, Berlin 1909. (Vol. 1–2)
    • Constancio Bernaldo de Quiros, José María Llanas Aguilaniedo: Crime and prostitution in Madrid. Marcus, Berlin 1909. (Vol. 3)
    • Tresmin-Trémolières: Yoshiwara. The love city of the Japanese. Berlin: Marcus 1910. (Vol. 4)
    • Camille Granier: The criminal woman. Marcus, Berlin 1910. (Vol. 5)
    • Maurice Talmeyr: The end of a society. Marcus, Berlin 1910. (Vol. 6)
  • Karl Gutzkow : Arabella. A toilet fantasy. New ed. u. with an introduction by Iwan Bloch. Alfred Richard Meyer-Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf [1920].

Publication of magazines

  • Journal of Sexology. (Founded by Albert Eulenburg and Iwan Bloch, continued by Max Marcuse ; later under the title Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualpolitik .)

literature

Web links

Commons : Iwan Bloch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family data , genealogy.net
  2. ↑ Iwan Bloch's siblings were also born in Delmenhorst, Ludwig Louis Bloch * 1876, murdered in the concentration camp , Otto Bloch * 1878, Richard Bloch * 1880, Alma Bloch * 1882
  3. ↑ Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau : Personenlexikon der Sexualforschung. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 3-5933-9049-3 , pp. 52-61.
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Leven : Bloch, Iwan. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Berlin / New York 2005, p. 187.
  5. ↑ The sex life of our time in its relationship to modern culture.
  6. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon : Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 178
  7. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco, Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms. Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-7091-0640-0 , p. 509
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veriphantor (pseudonym); Dühren, Eugen (pseudonym); Hagen, Albert (pseudonym); Welsenburg, Gerhard von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and sex researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1922
Place of death Berlin