Jakob Klaesi

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Jakob Klaesi (born May 29, 1883 in Luchsingen ; † August 17, 1980 in Knonau ) was a Swiss psychiatrist who is known for introducing the sleep cure .

biography

From 1903 to 1909 Klaesi studied medicine in Zurich , Kiel and Munich . In 1912 he received his doctorate in Zurich. Afterwards, Klaesi was an assistant doctor and later a senior doctor with Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich, where he received his habilitation in 1921. From 1923 to 1926 he was head of the newly opened Psychiatric University Polyclinic and senior physician at the Friedmatt Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel. He then founded and managed the private clinic Schloss Knonau in the canton of Zurich. In 1933 he became director of the Waldau Psychiatric University Clinic in Bern. From 1933 he was associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Bern from 1936 to 1953 . In 1934 he founded the Psychiatric Polyclinic in Bern.

In October 1935, the Munich psychiatrist and genetic researcher Hans Luxenburger asked Klaesi, the “hard-working and talented genetic researcher” Franz Josef Kallmann , who had been dismissed in Germany on anti-Semitic grounds , to find a job in Switzerland. Klaesi replied: "... I very much agree with the spirit of the Nuremberg Laws and I would like them to be observed more with us." Kallmann couldn't find a job in Switzerland. He also only received rejections from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey and Great Britain.

In 1938 the Bern private lecturer Stavros Zurukzoglu published an anthology in which the Swiss position on psychiatric-based forced sterilization was presented. Ernst Rüdin , the Munich commentator on the German compulsory sterilization law , then asked Jakob Klaesi whether Stavros Zurukzoglu was of Jewish descent. Rüdin received the answer that Zurukzoglu himself was not a Jew, but that he maintained contact with Jewish scientists ( Ludwig Binswanger and Hans Wolfgang Maier ). Rüdin then refused to work with Zurukzoglu.

Ernst Rüdin supported the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main to Klaesi not only because of his scientific achievements, but also on the grounds that Klaesi always shows a sincere admiration for Germany.

In 1943 Klaesi was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In the 1950/51 academic year he was rector of the University of Bern.

Klaesi was skeptical of somatic treatment methods, even though he developed the psychiatric sleep cure with the drug Somnifen around 1920 . He was primarily a psychotherapist and interested in the psychodynamics of his patients. Based on his experience, he began to develop a phenomenological expression analysis.

Klaesi was editor of the journal Psychiatria et Neurologia .

Klaesi also wrote poems and dramas.

Publications (selection)

Psychiatric writings

  • About the psychogalvanic phenomenon. In: Journal for Psychology and Neurology . Vol. 19 (1912), pp. 141–159 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1912).
  • About the meaning and origin of stereotypes. Karger , Berlin 1921 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1921).
  • From mental illness: prevention and healing. Haupt , Bern 1937.
  • The terminally ill and his treatment: Rector's speech. Haupt, Bern 1950.

Works of fiction

  • Christ: Dramatic Mass. Haupt, Bern 1945.
  • Homage: Selected Sonnets. Speer, Zurich 1947.
  • God and his doubter: Dramatic mass in one elevator. Thomas-Verlag , Zurich 1964.
  • Tragedy of the show Holofernes and Judith in four acts and one elevator. Classen, Zurich 1969.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bangen, Hans: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-927408-82-4 Permanent anesthesia or sleep therapy, pp. 38-43
  2. ↑ a b c d Thomas Haenel: Jakob Klaesi for his 120th birthday. In: The neurologist . Vol. 74 (2003), No. 5, doi: 10.1007 / s00115-002-1464-3 .
  3. ↑ Florian Mildenberger : On the trail of the "scientific pursuit". Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965) and race hygiene research. In: Medical History Journal. Vol. 37 (2002), H. 2, pp. 183-200, here pp. 190 f. ( Digitized at JSTOR ).
  4. ↑ Stavros Zurukzoglu. Prevention of hereditary offspring. A critical consideration and appreciation. Benno Schwabe, Basel 1938
  5. ^ GDA: 132, Klaesi-Rüdin-Zurukzoglu correspondence. Quoted from Matthias M. Weber. Ernst Rudin. A critical biography. Springer, Berlin, 1993, p. 230
  6. ↑ GDA: 110, Rüdin at the Medical Faculty Frankfurt, June 8, 1944. Quoted from: MM Weber 1993, p. 209
  7. ↑ Psychiatria et Neurologia , website of the S. Karger publishing house , accessed on July 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Klaesi, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynx singing
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1980
Place of death Knonau