Leopold Greppin

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Leopold Greppin (* 1854 in Delsberg ; † January 19, 1925 in Locarno ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and ornithologist .

Life

Leopold Greppin was the son of the doctor and geologist Jean-Baptiste Greppin and studied medicine at the University of Basel . In 1877 he became a member of the Corps Alamannia. In 1884 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1888 he was the second doctor at the lunatic asylum in Basel. In 1892 he was appointed director of the Solothurn healing and supply institution for the insane and terminally ill Rosegg in Langendorf . During his term of office, structural extensions and improvements of the institution fell. In 1919 it was so overcrowded with over 400 patients that in 1921 the cantonal council approved the takeover of the Kurhaus Fridau in Egerkingen , which Greppin now also ran.

In addition to his psychiatric work, Greppin worked as an ornithologist and naturalist. He was particularly committed to nature conservation in the canton of Solothurn . Isaak Adolf Bloch paid tribute to him 20 years after his death as a champion of Solothurn nature conservation regulations .

Fonts

psychiatry

  • Epileptic insanity , dissertation Basel 1884
  • Statistical review of the sick movement in the local insane asylum from 1876 to the end of 1886 , 1887
  • About 26 cases of progressive paralysis in women: According to a lecture in the medical society in Basel on July 4, 1889 , 1889
  • Contribution to Golgi's method of staining the nervous central organs , 1889
  • Further contribution to the knowledge of Golgi's method of investigation of the central nervous system , 1889
  • On a Huntington's chorea case , 1892
  • Protection and support for the insane: Presentation given at the annual meeting of the cantonal non-profit society on September 10, 1893 in Solothurn , 1893
  • To illustrate the medullary nerve fibers of the cerebrum , 1909
  • Scientific considerations on the intellectual abilities of humans and animals , 1911

Ornithology and related subjects

  • Notes on some of the birds found in the Solothurn area , 1900
  • Ornithological observations , 1903
  • Ornithological Notes , 1906
  • Attempt to contribute to the knowledge of the mental abilities of our native birds and notes on their distribution in the area around Solothurn , 1906
  • Observations on game birds 1908-9
  • Observations about the thrushes in the area around Solothurn: From November 1, 1906 to December 31, 1909 , 1910
  • About the avifauna on the heights of the Weissenstein range , 1911
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the bats occurring in the canton of Solothurn , 1911
  • The Natural History Department of the Museum of the City of Solothurn: Observations of some of our native birds and mammals , 1914
  • Ornithological observations in the Alpine region: Grindelwald and the surrounding area (10-25 July 1916) , 1919
  • Vom Tawny Owl: A New Case of Serious Eye Injury in a 15-Year-Old Boy , 1919
  • About the occurrence of the gorse cat (Genetta genetta vulgaris, Lessen) in the canton of Solothurn , 1919

literature

  • Julius Bloch: Director Dr. med. Leopold Greppin 1854-1925. In: Necrologist on the negotiations of the Swiss natural research society. Part II, Aarau 1925
  • IA Bloch: Leopold Greppin (1854–1925). A researcher and champion of Solothurn nature conservation efforts. In: For the homeland Volume 7 (1945), pp. 161–166.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 1 , 38.
  2. ↑ Leopold Greppin on artandmedicine.com.
  3. ^ IA Bloch: Leopold Greppin (1854-1925). A researcher and champion of Solothurn nature conservation efforts. In: For the homeland Volume 7 (1945), pp. 161–166.
personal data
SURNAME Greppin, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatrist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Delémont
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1925
Place of death Locarno