Rudolf Wlassak

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Rudolf Wlassak (born March 27, 1865 in Brno , † March 10, 1930 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physiologist , neurologist and pioneer of the anti-alcohol movement.

Life

Rudolf Wlassak studied at the University of Leipzig with Carl Ludwig and from 1885 to 1887 at the University of Zurich with Richard Avenarius . He was then assistant to Justus Gaule (1849–1939) in Zurich and taught from 1893 to 1898 as a private lecturer in physiology.

Wlassak devoted himself particularly to alcoholism, which became a popular epidemic among the workers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . The journal Der Abstinent , which he was editor of until 1906, was published as an organ of the abstinence association founded in Vienna in 1899 .

In 1905, together with the politician Anton Hölzl and the doctor Richard Fröhlich, in Favoriten, he founded the workers 'abstainer association in Austria as a central association of the individual, already existing workers' abstinence associations. As an instrument in the fight against alcohol abuse, the association gained great importance in Austrian social democracy .

As a recognized pioneer in the treatment of alcoholism, Wlassak became head of the newly founded drinking sanctuary in pavilion 2 of the psychiatric hospital Am Steinhof in Vienna in 1922 at his instigation .

Wlassak published works on the structure of the cerebellum , the origin of myelin and fundamental studies of the physiology of the senses , especially the sensations of space.

In Vienna- Hietzing ( Ober Sankt Veit ), Wlassakstrasse has been named after him since 1931 . The Wlassakgraben stream runs along the road .

Works

  • Ernst Mach memorial speech. Held at the Sociological Society in Vienna on June 26, 1916 . Leipzig 1917.
  • Outline of the alcohol question . Leipzig 1922.
  • Alcoholism . In handbook of hygiene . Leipzig 1923.

literature

  • Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Volume 2. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1933.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna.
    Volume 1. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 138.
    Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 669.

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