Karl Hergt

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Karl Hergt

Karl Hergt (born November 2, 1807 in Tauberbischofsheim , † December 23, 1889 in Achern ) was a German institutional psychiatrist . From its opening in 1842 until his death, he worked at the Illenau state insane asylum in Baden , most recently as director from 1878.

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Hergt first learned the profession of pharmacist before he, like his brothers, began studying medicine , which took him to Heidelberg , Vienna and Paris , and which he graduated from Heidelberg University in 1832 . His friend Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller recruited him to work in the lunatic asylum in Heidelberg . First, however, Hergt undertook a two-year study trip that took him from Paris, where he studied together with Heinrich Hoffmann , via Montpellier and Marseille to Milan , Pavia ,Bologna , Florence , Rome and Naples led. In Marseille he took part in the fight against a cholera epidemic . Back in Heidelberg, he first became Roller's assistant on October 18, 1835 in the insane asylum there in Baden. In 1842 he moved as the second doctor with a scooter to the newly built state insane asylum in Illenau. After Roller's death in 1878, Hergt took over the management of the institution, which he was to hold until his death.

Hergt received an honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1856 , was appointed to the Secret Medical Council in 1865 and was awarded the star for the Commander's Cross of the Zähringen Order of Lions in diamonds on his 50th anniversary in service . Hergt also owned the Hohenzollers House Order . In 1879 he was made an honorary citizen of Achern .

Hergt was a committed institutional psychiatrist who organized the institutional regime in the family spirit and maintained a patriarchal relationship with the sick and the hospital staff. As he wanted the use of force as well as scooter straitjacket and forced chair restrict, but not entirely without it. He was less active as a writer than a doctor, but nevertheless influenced the next generation of psychiatrists such as Bernhard von Gudden , Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Heinrich Schüle , who at least temporarily worked as doctors in Illenau and therefore became known as the newer “Illenau School”.

Fonts

  • History of the two cholera epidemics in southern France in 1834 and 1835 . Hergt, Coblenz 1838. GoogleBooks
  • Medical history of the "mother in the madhouse". In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatry. 8, 1851, pp. 581-591, 664-670.
  • Women's diseases and mental disturbance. In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatry. 27, 1871, pp. 657-672.
  • Via subcutaneous morphine injections. In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatry. 33, 1877, pp. 261-275.
  • Some things to treat mental disorders. In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatry. 33, 1877, pp. 803-837.

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personal data
SURNAME Hergt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German institutional psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Tauberbischofsheim
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1889
Place of death Achern