Theodor Benda

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Theodor Benda (born June 24, 1858 in Berlin ; † July 26, 1941 ) was a German medic .

Life

He was the son of the physician Max Siegfried Benda and his wife Pauline Benda nee Hirschfeld. After attending school, he studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and at the University of Heidelberg . In 1881 Benda doctorate on Dr. med. He received his license to practice medicine the following year. Then he worked as an assistant doctor. In 1888 he became a neurologist in Berlin. Because of his services as a neurologist, he was awarded the title of Privy Medical Council in 1904 .

In his neurological research, Theodor Benda tried, among other things, to find a cause of student suicides. He found this on the assumption that the main reason for this was enormous despair over failure in school. From his point of view, the curricula in the schools in Germany at the time were not for average students, but only for highly and highly gifted students. In 1907, Benda recommended the establishment of special classes for the less gifted in higher schools in Germany.

From 1904 to 1919 Benda was a member of the deputation for urban insane care in Berlin.

family

Theodor Benda married Bertha Benda. The children Otto, Heinrich Alexander Ludwig and Max E. Benda emerged from the marriage.

They lived in Berlin W 35, Dörnbergstrasse 1.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the connections between heart and mental illnesses , n.d.
  • (with Georg Lewin): About Erythromelagie , 1894.
  • Nervous hygiene and school . O. Coblentz, Berlin 1900.
  • The weakly gifted in higher schools (= healthy youth, II). BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1902.
  • Special features in the layout and upbringing of modern youth . In: Journal for Pedagogical Psychiology, Pathology and Hygiene 7 (1905), pp. 206-218.
  • Are the French people sane? In: Kölnische Zeitung of August 26, 1915.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 41, 1904, p. 892
  2. ^ Claudia Prestel: Youth in Need. Welfare Education in German-Jewish Society (1901-1933) , 2003, p. 183.
  3. ^ Journal of Health Care , Volume 1907
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1941