Karl Dietz (psychiatrist)

Karl Dietz

Karl Dietz (born November 1, 1859 in Calw , † May 21, 1904 in Stuttgart ) was a German psychiatrist . In 1895 he was appointed state psychiatrist in the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Live and act

Dietz studied medicine in Tübingen and was approved in 1883 . First he worked for a year as an assistant doctor in the surgical department of the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart . In 1885 he settled as a general practitioner in Bietigheim , after nine months he moved to Leipzig , where he specialized in psychiatry as an assistant at the psychiatric clinic under Paul Flechsig until 1888 . He then traveled to Vienna for study purposes and also worked as a ship's doctor . In 1889 he became an ordaining doctor at the Illenau sanatorium in Baden under Heinrich Schüle . In 1895 he received the newly created position of a consultant for psychiatry in the medical college in Stuttgart. With this he was appointed state psychiatrist and supervised the insane system in Württemberg. In this function he was also responsible for planning the mental hospital for the mentally ill in Weinsberg . About a year and a half before his death, he fell seriously ill and finally succumbed to an apoplectic insult .

Dietz published mainly about softening of the brain , mental disorders in the army during the war and in peace, about spinal cord diseases and simulation.

Fonts

• Is there a form of larynx croup that is not caused by diphtheritic infection? Diss. Med. Tubingen 1883.
• Dementia paralytica and syphilis . In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 43 (1887), pp. 237-255.
• Mental disorders in the army in peace and war . In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 44 (1888), pp. 209-257.
• Traumatic neurosis, transition into dementia paralytica . In: Festschrift Stuttgart Medical Association . Stuttgart 1897, pp. 159-165.

literature

• Senior Medical Councilor Dr. Dietz †. In: Psychiatric-Neurological Weekly . Vol. 6 (1904), pp. 112f.
• Biographical yearbook and German necrology . Vol. 9 (Berlin, 1906), p. 282.
• Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century . Vol. 1, KG Saur, Munich 1995, p. 254.