Rudolf Leubuscher

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Rudolf Leubuscher on a photograph by Carl Schenk around 1858

Rudolf Leubuscher (born December 12, 1821 in Breslau , † October 23, 1861 in Berlin ) was a German physician , internist , pathologist and psychiatrist .

Life

His father August Leubuscher was a businessman. Leubuscher attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau , which he left with the Abitur in 1840 - together with the later botanist Ferdinand Cohn . He then began studying medicine in Berlin . One of his teachers was Moritz Heinrich Romberg , the founder of neurology . Leubuscher received his doctorate in 1844 and passed the state examination in 1845.

He then worked as an assistant doctor under Heinrich Philipp August Damerow at the newly established provincial insane asylum in Nietleben in Halle (Saale) . In 1847 he came back to Berlin. He worked at the Charité and was the head of a cholera hospital . He also devoted himself to pathological anatomy , together with his college friend Rudolf Virchow and Benno Reinhardt . In 1848, Leubuscher completed his habilitation as the third Jewish private lecturer at Berlin University. In the same year Leubuscher accepted the Christian faith.

Not yet 40 years old, he died in Berlin in 1861 of liver disease. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . His granddaughter Charlotte Leubuscher (1888–1961) also found her final resting place here a century after him. Both graves are preserved.

Services

In October 1848 Leubuscher completed his habilitation at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . The topics of his first lectures were psychological epidemics and empirical psychology. Like Virchow, Leubuscher was on the side of the left-wing liberals in the year of the failed March Revolution in 1848 . Together with others you strove for a medical reform. From July 1848 onwards, Virchow and Leubuscher fought for a year for their ideals, especially for the uniform status of doctors, with the weekly magazine Die medicinische Reform , which they jointly published .

In Berlin, the so-called work house also housed the city's mentally ill. Here Leubuscher became senior physician in 1850. His struggle for better conditions at this institution did not have the desired success. And so in 1855 he took over the post of director of the medical clinic in Jena . He received the title of a court and medical councilor of the Saxon Grand Ducal . Nevertheless, Leubuscher said goodbye to Jena and returned to Berlin. He practiced as a doctor, became an associate professor, taught at the university and became a member of the commission for the medical state examination .

Leubuscher was not only an excellent scientist, he was also a good teacher and lecturer. He translated and edited the work De la Folie by the French psychiatrist Juste Louis Calmeil under the title Der Wahnsinn in the last four centuries (Halle: Schwetschke, 1848). Leubuscher listed numerous disorders of the will in his article On Abulie in 1847. By Abulie, like Johann Christian August Heinroth, he understood willlessness. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Publications

  • R. Leubuscher: About Abulie . In: Zeitschr. for psychiatry. 4, 1847, pp. 562-578
  • R. Virchow et al. R. Leubuscher, The medical reform . Weekly, published from July 10, 1848 to June 29, 1849, Berlin 1848–1849
  • R. Leubuscher: About the military wolves and animal transformations in the Middle Ages. A contribution to the history of psychology , Berlin 1850
  • R. Leubuscher: About the origin of the illusion. A contribution to anthropology , Berlin 1852
  • R. Leubuscher (Ed.): Benno Reinhardt's pathological-anatomical investigations , Berlin 1852
  • R. Leubuscher: The pathology and therapy of brain diseases , Berlin 1854
  • R. Leubuscher: The diseases of the nervous system , Leipzig 1860

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 233.
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
personal data
SURNAME Leubuscher, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, pathologist, psychologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1861
Place of death Berlin