Otto Ranke

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Ernst August Otto Ranke (born April 1, 1880 in Lübeck ; † May 4, 1917 killed on the Western Front) was a German psychiatrist and university professor.

Life

Otto Ranke was the middle of three sons of Lübeck's chief pastor Leopold Friedrich Ranke and his (second) wife Julie, née von Bever (1850–1924); his brothers were Hermann and Friedrich . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1899 and studied human medicine at the Universities of Göttingen, Munich and Kiel.

In 1904 he passed the state medical examination in Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1904/05 he was an assistant doctor in the psychiatric clinic in Munich. In 1905 he came to the newly opened Wiesloch sanatorium, today's Psychiatric Center North Baden , under Max Fischer. In 1907 he became an assistant at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic under the direction of Franz Nissl . In 1908 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry in Heidelberg and was appointed associate professor on August 27, 1914.

Ranke served in the First World War as a battalion doctor in the Bavarian Landsturm Infantry Battalion Rosenheim . He fell on May 4, 1917 and was buried in the German military cemetery in Aussonce in the canton of Juniville .

Otto Ranke was married to Charlotte Thekla Else, nee Zittel, widowed Schmidt (1872 – after 1926) since September 20, 1905. The couple had two sons and an adopted daughter.

Awards

Fonts

  • About brain changes in congenital syphilis. Fischer, Jena 1908., plus habilitation thesis, Univ. Heidelberg. ( Digitized version )
  • New knowledge and views of the mesenchymal syncytium and its differentiation products under normal and pathological conditions: obtained by means of the tannin silver method of N. Achúcarro. (= Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences class: Department B, Biological Sciences; 1913, 3). Winter, Heidelberg 1913.
  • On the theory of mesenchymal differentiation and impregnation processes: under normal and pathological conditions (with special consideration of the blood vessel wall). (= Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences class: Department B, Biological Sciences; 1914, 2). Winter, Heidelberg 1914.

literature

  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-183767-X , p. 1147.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932. Springer, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-70760-5 , pp. 213f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not main forester (Drüll)
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 1084.
  3. ↑ Looking around. Weekly on advances in science and technology. 19 (1915), p. 78.
  4. ↑ Block 2, grave 389, after searching for graves online, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
personal data
SURNAME Ranke, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ranke, Ernst August Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1917