Theodor Beer
Theodor Beer (born March 27, 1866 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; † September 27, 1919 in Lucerne ) was an Austrian physiologist and naturalist.
Life
Beer was the son of the wholesaler and banker Wilhelm Beer (1832–1905). In 1890 he left the Israelite religious community and was Protestant from 1903 .
Beer graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna and from 1883 studied medicine at the universities of Vienna , Strasbourg and Heidelberg . In 1889 he received his doctorate. 1890–92 he specialized in the eye clinic of the General Hospital (AKH) in Vienna, after which he worked at the physiological institute of the University of Bern . 1893–94 he conducted research in Naples and in 1895 in Cambridge. Beer made a name for himself with vivisections on fish, bird and reptile eyes. In 1896 he qualified as a professor in comparative physiology. In 1897 he began working closely with the physiologist Albrecht Bethe and the biologist, philosopher and zoologist Jakob von Uexküll . In 1899 he had also undertaken studies on human organs and thus contributed to the establishment of behaviorism . He welcomed the life reform movement around Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler and became an associate in 1903. Appointed professor.
Beer was sentenced to three months in prison in Vienna in 1905, which he had to serve on October 26, 1906. He had been accused of desecrating a son of the lawyer Heinrich Steger and a second boy, which Beer denied and the trial turned into a media event. Karl Kraus also deals with the allegations in the torch . In fact, Beer was not convicted of desecration, but of homophilia . Before his arrest, his friend Adolf Loos was able to move a box with pornographic recordings, including those of children, aside.
In 1910 and 1914 he worked again at the Naples Zoological Station . In 1916 he was called up for military service, but then became impoverished by buying Austro-Hungarian war bonds and committed suicide.
From 1903 he was first married to Laura Eissler (1883-1906), from 1916 to Dagmar Zidlicky († 1931).
Awards
- In 1900 he received the Lieben Prize of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna for his studies on the accommodation of the eye .
literature
- Christopher Long : The Theodor Beer case , in: Christopher Long: The Loos case . Translation Eva Martina Strobl. Vienna: Amalthea, 2015 ISBN 978-3-85002-908-7 , pp. 57–70
- Klaralinda Ma: The "Fall" Loos , in: Inge Podbrecky, Rainald Franz (Ed.): Living with Loos . Vienna: Böhlau, 2008 978-3-205-77743-4, pp. 161–171
- Court judgment 1905 in: Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, LGStr I, A 11, Fasz. 180, 4586/05
- Karl Kraus : Die Kinderfreunde , in: Die Fackel , November 1905
- Karl Kraus : Subsequent to the Beer Trial , in: Die Fackel , November 1905
Web links
- F. Mildenberger: Beer, Theodor . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anyone who has a boy or a girl under the age of fourteen, or a person in a state of defenselessness and unconsciousness, to satisfy his desires for someone other than those in §. 127 sexually abused manner, commits ... the crime of desecration ... , §128, see: Criminal Law 1852 (Austria)
- ^ Karl Kraus : Subsequent to the Beer Trial . Vienna, November 30, 1905. In: textlog.de , accessed December 20, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1919 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |