Romantic medicine

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Romantic medicine (also called the medicine of romanticism ) describes a direction of medicine that was particularly popular in Germany around 1800 . It refers to the romantic natural philosophy of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , which saw a unity of nature and spirit . Important followers were, at least for a time, Andreas Röschlaub , Johann Christian Reil , Dietrich Georg von Kieser , Philipp Franz von Walther , Johann Lukas Schönlein , Carl Gustav Carus and the young Johannes Peter Müller , who from 1833 onwards became a professor of physiology in Berlin scientifically oriented medicine took place. In psychiatry, this was combined with gentler methods and new forms of life instead of just institutional forms (cf. Heinrich Philipp August Damerow and Heinrich Laehr ). This results in a stronger university orientation or support for the medical practice of university psychiatry .

In historical retrospect, romantic medicine is often seen as a speculative (e.g., absorbing the theories of animal magnetism) impasse of scientific progress in medicine, but on the other hand also as a pioneer of new and freer forms of health care and education.

literature

  • Paul Diepgen: Old and New Romanticism in Medicine . Springer, Berlin 1932. Special print from: Klinische Wochenschrift , Vol. 11 (1932), Issue 1, pp. 28–34, ISSN  0023-2173 .
  • Dietrich von Engelhardt : Medicine of Romanticism. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 903-907.
  • Werner E. Gerabek : Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and the medicine of romanticism. Studies on Schelling's Würzburg period. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48865-3 (also habilitation thesis, University of Würzburg 1995).
  • Ernst Hirschfeld: Romantic Medicine. To a future history of the natural philosophy era. Kyklos 3, pp. 1-89 (1930).
  • Albrecht Koschorke: Poiesis of the body. Johann Christian Reil's romantic medicine . In: Gabriele Brandstetter, Gerhard Neumann (Hrsg.): Romantic knowledge poetics. The arts and sciences around 1800 ( Foundation for Romantic Research ; Vol. 26). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2632-2 .
  • Werner Leibbrand : Romantic Medicine. 2nd edition Goverts, Hamburg 1942 (first edition: Leipzig 1937).
  • Werner Leibbrand: The speculative medicine of romanticism . Claassen Verlag, Hamburg 1956.
  • Peter Paus: Philipp Karl Hartmann. Man, doctor and philosopher. His life, his work. A contribution to the medical history of romanticism. Medical dissertation Bonn 1971.
  • Roland Schiffter: "... I always acted smarter ... than the philistine doctors ..." Romantic medicine in Bettina von Arnim's everyday life - and elsewhere. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3307-8 .
  • Nelly Tsouyopoulos : Andreas Röschlaub and Romantic Medicine. The philosophical foundations of modern medicine (medicine in history and culture; vol. 14). Fischer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-437-10761-5 (also habilitation thesis, University of Münster 1979).
  • Urban Wiesing : Art or Science? Concepts of medicine in German romanticism. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7728-1634-7 (also habilitation thesis, University of Münster 1995).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Christian Claus: Medical History (Medicine and Philosophy; Vol. 1). Medical Tribune Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-922264-56-5 .
  2. ↑ Sabine Kleine: The rapport between animal magnetism and hypnotism. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 299-330, here: pp. 310-312 ( The philosophical-speculative model of German romanticism ).
  3. ^ After a lecture given on November 4, 1931 at the Berlin Medical Society . PDF (1.2 MB)
  4. ↑ See also: Goethezeitportal PDF