Ludwig Wille

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Ludwig Wille

Ludwig Wille (born March 30, 1834 in Buchdorf , Oberdonaukreis , Kingdom of Bavaria ; † December 6, 1912 in Basel , Switzerland ) was a German psychiatrist, clinic director and university professor.

Life

Wille studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1854 he joined the Corps Suevia Munich , he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , where he passed the state examination in 1858 and received his doctorate. From 1857 to 1859 he was August von Solbrig's assistant at the Erlanger insane asylum, and in 1859 he became a secondary physician at the Munich asylum that Solbrig set up and managed. In 1863 he was a secondary doctor under Heinrich Landerer in the Christophsbad Göppingen .

In 1864 he became director of the Münsterlingen insane asylum ( Canton Thurgau ) and in 1867 director of the newly founded institution Rheinau ( Canton Zurich ). In 1873 he went to Lucerne as director of the St. Urban Institution . In 1875, the University of Basel appointed him full professor of psychiatry. At the same time he became senior physician in the psychiatric department of the Basel Citizens' Hospital . From 1886 he was the first director of the newly established Friedmatt sanatorium in Basel. In 1904 Wille retired .

He expanded the Münsterlingen facility, built and organized the houses in Rheinau, St. Urban and Basel. Wille was a supporter of no restraint . In Basel he established regular psychiatric classes. Theoretically, Wille followed Wilhelm Griesinger's principle that “mental illnesses are brain diseases”. His publications are clinically and empirically oriented. Wille is considered a pioneer in geriatric psychiatry . He also worked as a reviewer in the field of forensic psychiatry . In 1864 he was a co-founder of the Association of Swiss Psychiatrists .

Ludwig Wille-von Meizl (1834–1912) Prof. Dr. Psychiatrist, senior physician, director of the Friedmatt sanatorium in Basel. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave on the Wolfgottesacker

Wille was married to Emilie von Meizl (1836–1881) and had eleven children from two marriages. His son Hermann was his assistant and became a psychiatrist in Münsterlingen. In 1887 Ludwig Wille became an honorary citizen of Basel.

Fonts

  • Is melancholy a form of psychological depression? Dissertation, University of Erlangen, 1858.
  • The Rheinau nursing home in the canton of Zurich. In: General journal for psychiatry . Vol. 26 (1869), pp. 196-223 (on the organization of the institution's operations).
  • The psychoses of old age. In: General journal for psychiatry . Vol. 30 (1874), pp. 269-294.
  • Lecture on the opening of the psychiatric clinic in Basel in the summer semester of 1877. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie . Vol. 34 (1878), pp. 395-403 (on the clinical method).
  • On the doctrine of obsessions. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . Vol. 12 (1882), pp. 1-43, doi: 10.1007 / BF01793559 (as an example of a clinical-empirical study).
  • Medical report regarding the state of mind of the former state clerk Dr. phil. Gottfried Keller from Zurich because of dubious testability. Quarterly journal for forensic medicine 3 (1893), pp. 67–79.

literature

  • Thomas Haenel : On the history of psychiatry: Thoughts on the general and Basel psychiatry history. Birkhäuser, Basel 1982.
  • Christian Meyer: Ludwig Wille: His life and work, especially in its importance for the development of clinical psychiatry in Switzerland (= Zurich medical historical treatises. Vol. 97). Juris, Zurich 1973.
  • Wilhelm von Speyr : Ludwig Wille. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Vol. 2, Springer, Berlin 1924, pp. 135-138.
  • Rainer Tölle : Ludwig Wille: Clinician and reform psychiatrist. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 156 (2005), pp. 29-34 ( online , with bibliography).
  • Hans H. Walser : Hundert Jahre Klinik Rheinau 1867-1967: Scientific psychiatry and practical insane care in Switzerland using the example of a large sanatorium and nursing home (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences. Vol. 24). Sauerländer, Aarau 1970.
  • Will, Ludwig. In: Julius Leopold Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 1853 f. ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/430.
personal data
SURNAME Will, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, clinic director and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchdorf , Upper Danube District, Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1912
Place of death Basel , Switzerland