Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum

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Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (born December 28, 1828 in Driesen near Landsberg in the Neumark , † April 15, 1899 in Görlitz ) was a German psychiatrist . In 1863 he set up a new classification of psychiatric illnesses in which he first defined hebephrenia and catatonia as illnesses.

Life course

Kahlbaum, the son of a trucking company, studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig , Würzburg , Königsberg and Berlin . In addition, he conducted studies in natural sciences and mathematics.

In 1854 he received his doctorate in Berlin on the subject of De avium tractus alimentarii anatomia et histologia nonnulla in Berlin, where he then did his military service for a year. The doctor, who had been licensed since 1854, received a position as second doctor in the provincial insane asylum in Allenberg in East Prussia , in the Wehlau district . After his habilitation in psychiatry in 1863, he taught in Königsberg , where he was excluded from clinical classes.

In 1866 Kahlbaum moved to Görlitz to the sanatorium for epileptics founded in 1855 by Hermann Andreas Reimer (1825–1906) . This private clinic, which was set up in a villa on Obermühlberg, was a unique facility in Germany at the time. In 1867 he took over the management of the house from Reimer, which he led to international renown. Kahlbaum founded a house of education for mentally problematic children and young people here.

On November 28, 1870, the son Siegfried Kahlbaum was born in Görlitz. Like his father, he studied medicine and after his death in 1899 took over the management of the sanatorium Dr. Kahlbaum in Görlitz.

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum died in a diabetic coma in 1899 .

The Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee and the planned Dr.-Karl-Ludwig-Kahlbaum Center for Gerontopsychiatry are named after Kahlbaum .

Fonts

  • The grouping of mental illnesses and the classification of mental disorders , Danzig 1863
  • The catatonia or the insanity of tension. A clinical form of mental illness. Berlin: A. Hirschwald 1874, 104 pp.
  • The clinical-diagnostic aspects of psychopathology. Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel 1878, 20 p. (→ Kahllbaum, Karl Ludwig (1878) , Wikiversity)
  • The sensory rooms. A contribution to the clinical expansion of psychiatric symptomatology and physiological psychology . In: General journal for psychiatry and psychological-judicial medicine . tape 23 . Verlag von August Hirschwald, Berlin 1866, p. 1–86 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ). ( Digitized in the Google book search).

literature

  • Reimar Altenkirch: Two important personalities of the Görlitz medical history, II. Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828–1899). In: Reports of the natural research society of Upper Lusatia. Volume 10, 2002, S, 99-104 ( PDF-Online ).
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Kahlbaum, Karl Ludwig. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 713 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Bald tree, Karl Ludwig. 2005, p. 713.
personal data
SURNAME Kahlbaum, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Driesen
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1899
Place of death Goerlitz