Martin Reichardt (medical doctor)

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Martin Reichardt (born August 17, 1874 in Ronneburg , Thuringia , † December 23, 1966 in Würzburg ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor .

Life

A native of the East Thuringian Ronneburg Martin Reichardt, son of a Thuringian superintendent , turned to the High School to study medicine at the Universities of Halle , Heidelberg and Munich to 1900 he was at the University of Leipzig to Dr. med. PhD . During his studies in 1893 he became a member of the Fridericiana Halle and Saxo-Thuringia Würzburg singers . After completing further training, in 1903 he took up a position as a research assistant to Konrad Rieger at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , in 1906 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in psychiatry, in 1911 he was promoted to associate professor and in 1924 to full professor and Director of the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic at the University of Münster. In 1925 he succeeded Konrad Rieger, whose daughter he had meanwhile married, appointed professor and director of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Würzburg. Martin Reichardt, who joined the NSDAP in 1937 and was a sponsor of the psychiatrist Werner Heyde , retired in 1939 , but worked until he was 90.

In 1964, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, he was awarded the Golden Kraepelin Medal , in particular for the research of the brain stem , the importance of which he was one of the first to recognize. In addition, he scientifically presented the processes involved in brain swelling and pathological changes in intracranial pressure and also dealt with the consequences of brain injuries as part of the accident assessment that he helped establish in Germany.

Fonts

  • A contribution to the argyria question, dissertation , University of Leipzig, Leipzig, 1900
  • On the examination of the healthy and diseased brain using the balance, habilitation thesis , Fischer, Jena, 1906
  • General and special psychiatry a textbook for students and doctors, 2nd revised edition of the guideline for psychiatric clinics, G. Fischer, Jena, 1918
  • War damage and criminal sanity, Kabitzsch, Leipzig, Würzburg, 1919
  • Introduction to accident and disability assessment: A textbook for students and doctors, 2nd revised edition, G. Fischer, Jena, 1921
  • Accident relationships with non-traumatic brain and mental diseases, FCW Vogel, Berlin, 1933
  • Cranial cavity, brain and body; a contribution to brain pathology and constitutional pathology, Fischer, Stuttgart, 1965

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 10th edition, Berlin 1966, page 1947.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 198.
  • Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R - Z. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 490.
  • Jobst Böning: From Reichardt to Beckmann: Würzburg Psychiatry in the 20th Century. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007, pp. 413–419; here: p. 413.
  • Joachim Gerlach: Memory of Martin Reichardt. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 3, 1985, pp. 375-380.
  • Richard Kraemer: Würzburg physician 50 years ago. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 165-172, here: pp. 169 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 250.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 484f.
personal data
SURNAME Reichardt, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1966
Place of death Wurzburg