Sigbert Ganser

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Sigbert Ganser

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (born January 24, 1853 in Rhaunen , Rhine Province , † January 4, 1931 in Dresden ) was a German psychiatrist.

Life

His father Peter Joseph Ganser was a notary, married to Katharina Jonas.

Ganser studied medicine in Würzburg , Strasbourg and Munich at the Ludwig Maximilians University . There he received his doctorate in 1876. After a short time as an assistant to Franz von Rinecker at the psychiatric clinic in Würzburg, he went in 1877 as an assistant to Bernhard von Gudden at the district mental asylum in Munich. Here he completed his habilitation in 1880 on the anatomy of mole brains. In 1884 he became senior physician at the Brandenburg State Institute in Sorau under Adolf Schmidt . Two years later he succeeded Emil Kraepelin as the doctor in charge of the insane department at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt General Hospital , after Kraepelin accepted a professorship at the University of Dorpat in 1886 . Under his leadership, the insane department developed into the municipal sanatorium for the mentally ill and infirm .

In 1897 Ganser first described the Ganser syndrome, which was later named after him . He relied on his observations made while working as a forensic psychoneurologist. There Ganser had with three remand prisoners first time such symptoms identified as "hysterical twilight".

In 1889 he married Mary Sophia Cloete-Brown. With her he had two children: Herbert (1893) and Sibylla (1894).

In 1908 Ganser was appointed to the Secret Medical Council and an extraordinary member of the Royal Saxon State Health Council. In 1924 he retired.

Fonts

  • About the anterior brain commissure of the mammals. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 9, 1879, pp. 286-299 doi : 10.1007 / BF02666472 .
  • On the anatomy of the anterior mound of the corpus quadrigeminum. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 11, 1880, pp. 278-281.
  • On the anatomy of the cat retina. In: Journal of Comparative Ophthalmology. 1, 1882, p. 139.
  • About the peripheral and central arrangement of the optic nerve fibers and about the corpus bigeminum anterius. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 13, 1882, pp. 341-381 doi : 10.1007 / BF02013534 .
  • Comparative anatomical studies of the mole's brain . In: Morphological Yearbook. 7, 1882, pp. 591-725.
  • How can the so-called iron stock for troops in the field best be established? In: Archives for Hygiene . 3, 1885, pp. 500-520.
  • Demonstration of a patient with aphasia and hemianopia. In: Annual report of the Society for Nature and Medicine in Dresden 1887/188. 1888, pp. 147-149.
  • On some symptoms of hysteria and on the relationship of hysteria to alcoholism. In: Annual report of the Society for Nature and Medicine in Dresden 1893/1894. 1894, pp. 119-133.
  • About a strange hysterical twilight state. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 30, 1898, pp. 633-640 doi : 10.1007 / BF02036039 .
  • Neurasthenic mental disorder. In: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt City Hospital. Baensch, Dresden 1899, pp. 81-89.
  • Drunkenness - a curable disease. Lecture given at the annual meeting of the Saxon regional association against the abuse of spirits in Döbeln on June 23, 1901. Dresden 1901.
  • Drinking madness. In: General journal for psychiatry. 59, 1902, p. 542.
  • On the doctrine of the hysterical twilight state. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 38, 1904, pp. 34-46 doi : 10.1007 / BF02173461 .
  • For the treatment of delirium tremens. In: Munich Medical Weekly. 54, 1907, pp. 120-122.
  • Alcohol and mental illness. Lecture given in the scientific course organized by the Saxon State Association against the Abuse of Spiritual Drinks from June 3 to 10, 1908, to research the question of alcohol. Dresden 1909.
  • About hysteria. In: Munich Medical Weekly. 59, 1912, p. 48.
  • B. v. Gudden. In: Theodor Kirchhoff (Ed.): Deutsche Irrenärzte. Individual images of their life and work. Volume 2. Springer, Berlin 1924, p. 47.

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 8. 1922, p. 455.
  • J. Bresler: Dr Sigbert Ganser on his 75th birthday (January 24th). In: Psychiatric-neurological weekly. Volume 30, 1928, pp. 29-33.
  • Georg Ilberg : Sigbert Ganser, January 24, 1923. In: Archives for Psychiatry. 67, 1923, pp. 357-362 doi : 10.1007 / BF02126529 .
  • Emil Kraepelin: Sigbert Ganser. In: Munich medical weekly. Volume 70, 1923, p. 88.
  • Necrology Ganser. In: General journal for psychiatry. Volume 96, 1932, p. 397.
  • DF Allen, J. Postel: For SJM Ganser of Dresden. A much mis-represented man. In: History of Psychiatry. Volume 5, No. 19, September 1, 1994, pp. 289-319 doi : 10.1177 / 0957154X9400501901 .
  • Otto Bach: The role of Sigbert Ganser for the development of psychiatry in Saxony (= series of publications of the German Society for the History of Neurology. Volume 1). 1996, pp. 21-28.
  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Volume 1. Saur, 1996, pp. 427-428 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Bernd P. Laufs: A career as a scholar in Wilhelmine Germany . In: Heimatkalender 2013, Birkenfeld 2012, pp. 282–283.
  • Bernd P. Laufs: Sigbert Ganser and the beginning of Dresden psychiatry . Dresdner Hefte 31, Heft 113, 2013, pp. 65–72.
  • Otto Bach: Sigbert Ganser - an important Saxon psychiatrist. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen 24, 2013, pp. 164–165 (PDF; 198 kB).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Sigbert Joseph Maria Ganser in: Dirk Arenz: Eponyms and syndromes in psychiatry: biographical-clinical contributions . Viavital-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-934371-27-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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SURNAME Ganser, Sigbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganser, Sigbert Josef Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhaunen , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1931
Place of death Dresden