Karl Heilbronner

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Karl Heilbronner

Karl Heilbronner (born November 21, 1869 in Nuremberg , † September 8, 1914 in Utrecht ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Heilbronner attended school in Nuremberg and the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich , where he graduated from high school in 1888. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1893 under Hubert von Grashey ( on the duration of illness and causes of death in progressive paralysis ). He then went to the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt, where he trained in anatomy. In 1894 he became an assistant doctor at the royal psychiatric clinic in Breslau with Carl Wernicke . In 1898 he became senior physician at the mental hospital of the University of Halle under Eduard Hitzig and completed his habilitation in Halle in the same year ( spinal cord changes in multiple neuritis in drinkers ). In 1901 he received the title of professor. In 1903 he became professor of psychiatry at Utrecht University as the successor to Theodor pull .

He researched apraxia , melancholy and obsessions. He was responsible for the Heilbronn images in diagnostics.

He wrote the epilepsy and psychoneuroses sections in the first edition of the manual of internal medicine (Volume 6, 1912).

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  • On the duration of illness and causes of death in progressive paralysis , 1894
  • Aphasia and Mental Illness , 1896
  • About Asymboly , 1897
  • On the tasks of clinical psychiatry , 1904
  • The Criminal Assessment of Drinkers , 1905
  • About habituation in normal and pathological areas , 1912

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