Julius Ludwig August Koch

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Julius Ludwig August Koch

Julius Ludwig August Koch (born December 4, 1841 in Laichingen ( Württemberg ), † June 25, 1908 in Zwiefalten ) was a German psychiatrist .

Life

Koch, the eldest son of a Württemberg mother, née Zeller, and one from Northern Germany, a country doctor's practice and a private insane asylum that he founded himself leading doctor of medicine and philosophy, studied medicine in Tübingen from 1863 to 1867 . He initially worked as a general practitioner until, after marrying the pastor's daughter Julie Herwig in 1870, he found employment as an assistant doctor in a private mental hospital in Göppingen . On July 18, 1874, he became director of the Württemberg state insane asylum in Zwiefalten . He was involved in the field of personality disorders and coined the term “psychopathic inferiority” in 1891. Koch was also a supporter of genetic degeneration theory and described various types of disorders such as the faint-hearted or the do-gooders of the city ​​and the world . In February 1898 he retired and moved to Cannstatt. He wrote poetry , initially under the pseudonym Fredelik , and also published a botanical work on leaf lichens in the Zwiefalter area . Koch had three children. Before Koch moved to Cannstatt, his eldest son had become a senior physician at the Zwiefalten psychiatric institution. Julius Ludwig August Koch is buried in the Zwiefalten cemetery.

Works

  • Epistemological Studies , 1882.
  • Outline of Philosophy , 1885.
  • Reality and its Knowledge , 1886.
  • Concise Guide to Psychiatry 1888.
  • The psychopathic inferiorities. Maier, Ravensburg 1891-1893.
  • The question of the born criminal. Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1894. Digitized

Sources and literature

  • Robert Gaupp : Julius Ludwig August Koch. 1841-1908. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Volume II, Berlin 1924, pp. 195-202.
  • Philipp Gutmann: Julius Ludwig August Koch (1841–1908): psychiatrist, philosopher and Christian. In: Würzburger medical history reports 25, 2006, pp. 215–230.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Gutmann: Julius August Koch [...]. 2006, p. 216 f.
  2. ↑ JLA Koch: The psychopathic inferiorities. 1891-1893

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Julius Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Laichingen
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1908
Place of death Double folds