Moritz Tramer

Moritz Tramer (born January 20, 1882 in Polish-Ostrava , Austria-Hungary , † May 1, 1963 in Bern ) was a Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Moritz Tramer was the son of a poor Jewish born family. Tramer studied mathematics at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich from 1901 to 1906 and obtained his doctorate in 1906 at the University of Bern with a thesis on " Leibniz's discovery and justification of differential and integral calculus in connection with his views on logic and epistemology: questions from function theory" . He later studied medicine . At the age of 35 he came to child and adolescent psychiatry in 1917 . In 1924 he married the psychologist Franziska Baumgarten , who came to see him in Switzerland from Berlin . The couple initially lived in Solothurn before moving to Bern in 1945. The two supported each other professionally and published together.

Moritz Tramer headed the "Rosegg" psychiatric institution in Langendorf from 1924 to 1945 , where he established child and adolescent psychiatry in Biberist , which he headed from 1937 to 1950. In 1934 he founded the magazine “Kinderpsychiatrie, Acta paedopsychiatrica” and in 1942 published the first edition of his textbook on “General Child Psychiatry, including General Psychiatry of Adolescence” , the most comprehensive textbook of its time in the field. In 1954, at the age of 72, together with the French Georges Heuyer, he founded the Union of European Pedopsychiatrists . By inviting seven German colleagues to the founding event, Tramer reintegrated the German child and youth psychiatrist into the international community. He did this even though he lost 50 family members during the Nazi era .

Moritz Tramer was also involved in the board of trustees of what was then the “Landerziehungsheim Albisbrunn”. From the founding of Albisbrunn in 1924 until he left the Board of Trustees in 1929, he provided Heinrich Hanselmann , the first director of the home and later director of the curative education seminar in Zurich , with technical support in questions of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Tramer died in Bern in 1963 at the age of 81. His estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

literature

• Rolf Castell (Ed.): One Hundred Years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Biographies and Autobiographies. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-509-5 .
• WG Eliasberg : In memoriam. Moritz Tramer, MD (1882–1963). In: American Journal of Psychiatry . No. 121, July 1964, p. 103 f.
• Matthias Giger: Franziska Baumgarten's child prodigies. In: SwissGifted. Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 67-75 ( PDF document; 148 kB ).
• Ellen Jorisch-Wissink: The child psychiatrist Moritz Tramer (1882-1963) (= Zurich medical- historical treatises. Vol. 184). Juris, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-260-05147-3 .
• Kathrin Laederach: 150 years of psychiatry in the Canton of Solothurn. A long way to go in the future. 1860-2010. 2010 ( PDF document; 1.26 MB ).
• Madeleine Rupps, Dagmar Bussiek, Rolf Castell, Susanne Gruß, Jan Nedoschill: Moritz Tramer and Georges Heuyer: Your personal contribution to the reintegration of German child and youth psychiatrists in the post-war period. In: Ulrike Lehmkuhl (Hrsg.): Mental illness in childhood and adolescence. Paths to Healing. XXVII. Congress of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin 3.-6. April 2002. The abstracts. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3525461682 , p. 229 f. ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Moritz Tramer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Angela Graf-Nold: Tramer, Moritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moritz Tramer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Moritz Tramer's estate in the Bern Burger Library catalog