Rudolf Arndt
Rudolf Gottfried Arndt (born March 31, 1835 in Bialken , Marienwerder district , West Prussia , † September 29, 1900 in Greifswald ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor.
Life
Arndt studied medicine in Greifswald and Halle (Saale) , where he was mainly influenced by his teachers Niemeyer, Bardeleben and Damerow. In Greifswald he belonged to the Greifswald fraternity Rugia . In February 1860 he was with the dissertation De ended tio quaestiones quaedam at Greifswald University doctorate and settled in 1861 first as a practical physician. He took part as a doctor in the German-Danish War in 1864, the German War in 1866 and the German-French War of 1870/71.
In 1867 he had in Greifswald habilitation and was head of the local lunatic asylum, mental hospital become. In 1873 he was appointed associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Greifswald .
He was scientifically and journalistically active, especially with numerous articles in specialist journals on histological studies of the nervous system. In 1883 he set up a "Basic Biological Law" (later confirmed by the pharmacologist Hugo Schulz as Arndt-Schulz's rule ), according to which small stimuli have a stimulating effect on life activity and larger ones inhibit it. In 1885 he wrote the first German work on " Neurasthenia ".
Works
- Psychiatry textbook. Vienna and Leipzig 1883
- Neurasthenia (weak nerves), its nature, its meaning and treatment from the anatomical-physiological point of view for doctors and students. Vienna and Leipzig 1885
- with August Dohm: The course of the psychoses. Vienna and Leipzig 1887
- Notes on force and releasing force in particular. Greifswald 1892
- Insane. Insane. Incapacitated. Greifswald 1896
- What are Mental Illnesses - Collection of informal treatises on the field of nerves. and mental illnesses, Halle 1897 (Volume 3 Halle 1900)
Awards
- Crown Order IV Class with Swords (1866)
- Iron Cross 2nd class on white and black ribbon (1871)
- Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Baden Order of the Zähringer Löwen
literature
- Magnus Schmid: Arndt, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 362 ( digitized version ).
- Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the 19th century. Berlin 1901
- Stefan Ortlob: Professor Rudolf Arndt, Life and Work. Greifswald 1992
- Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths . Karl F. Hauck Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8304-7254-4 , p. 4.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Jütte : History of Alternative Medicine. From folk medicine to today's unconventional therapies. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN = 3-406-40495-2, p. 194.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arndt, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arndt, Rudolf Gottfried (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bialken , Marienwerder district , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 1900 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |