Johann Michael Leupoldt

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Johann Michael Leupoldt (born November 11, 1794 in Weißenstadt , Fichtelgebirge , † August 21, 1874 in Erlangen ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor.

Life

Leupoldt studied medicine from 1814 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . During his studies he became a member of the local Bayreuth team , where he was consenior . Although he was initially opposed to Karl Ludwig Sand and the Erlangen fraternity of Teutonia , from the winter semester of 1817/18 he participated in the establishment and expansion of the Erlangen fraternity to the point that the Erlanger Landsmannschaften were dissolved on December 5, 1817 . He was the successor to Johann Georg August Wirth in the Committee of 15 and was spokesman for the fraternity in 1818 . He received his doctorate in 1818 for Dr. med. and completed his habilitation in the same year. Interested in psychiatry and with a scholarship from the Krone Bayern , he went to Charité in 1820/21 . He learned from Ernst Horn and Johann Gottfried Langermann . Leupoldt was a member of the Erlangen Freemason Lodge Lebanon to the three Ceders .

Back in Erlangen, he was appointed associate professor in 1821 and professor of psychiatry in 1826 . For the year of office 1830/31 he was elected Rector of FAU. At his instigation, the first Bavarian mental hospital was built in Erlangen in 1845. He lectured well into old age . In 1843 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

  • Hermann Leupold: Dr. med. Johann Michael Leupoldt [1794-1874]. Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Erlangen. Contribution to Erlangen's university and student history . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 38 (1993), pp. 15-100

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland University
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 36.
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Leupoldt, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenstadt , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1874
Place of death gain