Max Kauffmann

Max Kauffmann (born August 27, 1871 in Brugg ; † 1923 missing) was a German physician , chemist , lawyer , psychiatrist and psychologist .

life and work

Kauffmann was the son of a tunneling engineer . He passed his Abitur in Stuttgart in 1891 and did military service as a one-year volunteer . He studied medicine and philosophy in Göttingen , Halle (Saale) , Berlin , Strasbourg and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1898 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, “On reflex pupillary rigidity in spinal cord diseases”. He then worked at various hospitals and practices, including the Berlin-Moabit hospital and as a senior physician at a women's clinic. He studied natural sciences out of private interest and traveled a lot. In 1904 he became an assistant doctor at the psychiatric clinic at the University of Halle . He completed his habilitation in 1908 with "Contributions to the pathology of the metabolism in progressive paralysis " for the subjects of psychiatry and neurology .

After a falling out with the clinic director Gabriel Anton , Kauffmann left the clinic. He received his doctorate in chemistry in 1909 at the University of Halle on “On the detection of choline” and in 1912 at the University of Rostock on “The principle of indebtedness in criminal law” in law . His university career stalled after he had obtained a reprimand from the medical faculty of the University of Halle for accusing a Leipzig private lecturer of partiality in an insurance report. In 1912 Kauffmann published the psychology of crime and in 1913 the pamphlet Critique of the Fanatical Alcohol Abstinence Movement .

During the First World War , Kauffmann ran a field hospital in France . In December 1918 he was appointed professor and in 1921 received an extraordinary professorship. After the war, Kauffmann worked on psychology. He dealt with the use of hypnosis and suggestion and thus suggested the integration of psychoanalytic thoughts and concepts into hypnosis research. He also published on current political issues.

According to his personal file at the University of Halle, Kauffmann had a fatal accident during a mountain tour.

Fonts

• Max Kauffmann: For the treatment of diphtheria. Laupp, Tübingen 1895.
• Max Kauffmann: About reflex pupillary rigidity in spinal cord diseases. Jahn, Berlin, Würzburg 1898.
• Max Kauffmann: Contributions to the pathology of the metabolism in psychoses. Fischer, Jena 1908.
• Max Kauffmann: Epilepsy. Fischer, Jena 1908.
• Max Kauffmann: The progressive paralysis. Fischer, Jena 1908.
• Max Kauffmann: About the evidence of choline. Kaemmerer, Halle, Halle 1909.
• Max Kauffmann: Functional Psychoses. Fischer, Jena 1910.
• Max Kauffmann: About the alleged occurrence of choline in pathological lumbar fluid. In: The virtual laboratory. 66, No. 4/5/6 1910, pp. 343-344 ( [1] ).
• Max Kauffmann: The principle of indebtedness in criminal law. Buchh. of the orphanage, Halle ad p. 1912.
• Max Kauffmann: The Psychology of Crime. A criticism. Springer, Berlin 1912.
• Max Kauffmann: Critique of the fanatical alcohol abstinence movement. Konegen, Leipzig 1913.
• Max Kauffmann: Suggestion and Hypnosis. Lectures for doctors, psychologists and lawyers. Springer, Berlin 1920.
• Max Kauffmann: The consciousness processes in suggestion and hypnosis. Marhold, Halle as 1921.
• Max Kauffmann: Socialism and Reality. Marhold, Halle 1923.

Web links

• Entry on Max Kauffmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis