Theodor Simon (physician)

Theodor Simon (born February 27, 1841 in Colberg ; † July 20, 1874 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and psychiatrist .

Life

Simon grew up in Colberg until 1848, where his father was a general practitioner. In 1857 he began his medical studies in Berlin , which he completed in 1861 with a doctorate on partial albinism . He first went to Vienna for a short time before serving in the military in Berlin from October 1862 to May 1863. He then took up an assistant position at the Friedrichsberg insane asylum in Hamburg . In 1866 and 1870/71 he took part as a doctor in the Prussian war against Austria and in the Franco-German war . In 1869 he became senior physician at the Hamburg General Hospital. He died unexpectedly in 1874 of the consequences of meningitis .

Simon was a prolific writer who mainly published in magazines. His specialties were brain and skin diseases. With "The Brain Softening of the Insane" (1871) he wrote the first German monograph on progressive paralysis , probably the most widespread mental illness in the 19th century.

Publications

• About partial albinism in colored people and Europeans . In: German Clinic No. 41 u. 42 (1861).
• The treatment of insane criminals from a medicinal police point of view . In: Quarterly journal for judicial medicine / NF II , (1865), pp. 193-272, ISSN  0372-5766
• The softening of the brain in the insane (dementia paralytica) . Hamburg 1871.

literature

• Burchhardt, Theodor Simon . In: Virchows Archiv , Vol. 61 (1874), pp. 517-523, ISSN  0945-6317

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Schott and Rainer Tölle : History of Psychiatry. Disease teachings, wrong turns, forms of treatment . Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53555-0 , p. 80.