John E. Staehelin

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John Eugen Staehelin-Iselin (born June 3, 1891 in Basel ; † May 16, 1969 there ; entitled to live in Basel) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

The son of the silk manufacturer Benedict Staehelin studied medicine with a focus on psychiatry at the Universities of Basel and Munich . He did his doctorate in 1918 under Gustav Wolff and then worked as an assistant at Burghölzli . In the summer semester of 1926 he received his habilitation at the University of Zurich and in 1927 he was appointed first senior physician and head of the University Psychiatric Clinic. From the summer semester of 1929 he was full professor of psychiatry at the University of Basel and director of the cantonal sanatorium and nursing home Friedmatt . In 1935/36 Staehlin was dean of the medical faculty and in 1948 rector of the University of Basel. He retired in the winter semester of 1959.

John Staehelin was married to Elisabeth born in 1921. Iselin and had several children, including the lawyer and general secretary of Swissair Bernhard Staehelin (1923-2010) and the historian and state archivist Andreas Staehelin (1926-2002).

Fonts (selection)

  • The significance of the somatic phenomena for the etiology and prognosis of alcoholic delirium. Dissertation, University of Basel, 1918.
  • Investigations on 70 exhibitionists. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. Vol. 102 (1926), pp. 464-547, doi: 10.1007 / BF02962293 (= habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1926).
  • The experience with the shortened working hours of the nursing staff at the Friedmatt Sanatorium in Basel (= personnel and institutional issues - articles on the nursing of the sick and insane. Issue 4). H. Huber, Bern / Berlin 1930.
  • Cantonal sanatorium and nursing home Friedmatt Basel. Eckhardt and Pesch, Zurich 1933.
  • The psychopaths. In: Stavros Zurukzoglu (ed.): Prevention of genetically ill offspring. A critical consideration and appreciation. Schwabe, Basel 1938, pp. 155–170.
  • The present crisis and psychiatry: Rector's speech given on November 26, 1948. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1948.

literature

  • Edgar Bonjour : The University of Basel from its beginnings to the present 1460-1960. Basel 1960.
  • Eduard Thurneysen : In memory of Prof. Dr. med. John E. Staehelin-Iselin. Basel 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The University of Zurich: 1933–1983. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Zurich. University of Zurich, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85823-086-3 , p. 694.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from a family tree (PDF; 29 kB), website on the genealogy of the Stroux-Speiser family, accessed on December 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Staehelin, John E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staehelin-Iselin, John Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1969
Place of death Basel