Otto Snell

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Otto Snell as a corps student

Friedrich Karl Otto Snell (born March 8, 1859 in Hildesheim , † July 7, 1939 in Göttingen ) was a German psychiatrist and clinic director.

Life

Otto Snell was born the son of the psychiatrist and clinic director Ludwig Snell ; the psychiatrist and clinic director Richard Snell (1867-1934) was his younger brother. Otto Snell studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen , Tübingen , Berlin and Jena and graduated in Jena in 1884 with a state examination and doctorate . Snell became a member of the Corps Hercynia Göttingen and the Corps Borussia Tübingen . He then worked as an assistant to Bernhard von Gudden at the district insane asylum in Munich and from 1885 to 1888 as his father's assistant at the Hildesheim sanctuary and nursing home. In 1888 he went to Munich, where he temporarily looked after King Otto of Bavaria . In 1892 he became the second doctor and deputy director at the Hildesheim sanatorium. From 1901 to 1924 he headed the newly established sanatorium and nursing home in Lüneburg . The classical philologist Bruno Snell was his son.

Fonts

  • Witch Trials and Insanity. Psychiatric examinations. Lehmann, Munich 1891 ( digitized version ).
  • On the history of insane care. Lecture given in the Association for Art and Science in Hildesheim on November 17, 1896. Printed by Gebe-Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1896.
  • Basics of care for the insane for students and doctors. Reimer, Berlin 1897 ( digitized version ).
  • A Sunday child. Narrative (= little book to pass on. No. 11). Publishing house "Auf der Wacht", Berlin-Dahlem [1929].

literature

  • Max Fischer: Otto Snell †. In: General journal for psychiatry . Vol. 114 (1940), pp. 387-391 (with list of publications and picture).
  • Snell, Otto. In: Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Saur, Munich 1996, vol. 3, p. 1367 f. ( online ).
  • Snell, Otto. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 9 (2008), p. 490 ( online ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About sensations of pain and pressure in the head as a symptom of illness in the beginning and course of primary madness (the primary madness) .
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 75/63; 192/82.
personal data
SURNAME Snell, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snell, Friedrich Karl Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and clinic director
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1939
Place of death Goettingen