Werner Scheid

Werner Scheid

Werner Scheid (born July 22, 1909 in Dortmund , † December 25, 1987 in Cologne ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist .

Life

Werner Scheid was born in Dortmund in 1909. He attended high schools in Duisburg and Remscheid and received his school-leaving certificate in 1927 . In the same year he began studying medicine . Halle (Saale) , Bonn , Berlin , Breslau and finally Heidelberg , where he passed his state examination in 1933, were his places of study, and was then awarded his doctorate in Munich with the thesis "The pointer of guilt in its meaning for the prognosis of involved psychoses" .

After obtaining his license to practice medicine he became an assistant at the institute of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich under Kurt Schneider . Because of the politically more difficult situation in psychiatry , Scheid switched to neurology and became an assistant at the Neurological University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf under the direction of Heinrich Pette . In 1946 he completed his habilitation and was appointed senior physician at the clinic. In 1946 he was elected chief physician of the neurological department of the newly founded Heidberg General Hospital in Hamburg-Langenhorn .

In 1949 Werner Scheid was appointed to the chair for neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne and in 1950 took over as director of the mental hospital, which had been badly damaged by the effects of the war, and began to rebuild it immediately. At an early stage, the clinic was supplemented by several special departments for neurophysiology , neurochemistry and neuropathology . The establishment of a separate ward for infectious diseases of the nervous system , the first neuropsychiatric intensive care unit in Germany , and an own rehabilitation center were an expression of scientific interests and clinical foresight.

Werner Scheid was part of a lively scientific activity throughout his life, the income of which is reflected in more than 140 original works and book chapters. Some focal points should be mentioned: the physically justifiable psychoses , pathogenesis and course of diphtheric polyneuropathy , viral infections of the nervous system, problems of pathological CSF changes . Long study stays in the USA at various virus institutes gave him the technical basis for this.

Even more important than the scientific work, however, were Werner Scheid's extraordinary teaching skills with brilliant lectures and his great textbook on neurology , which was written together with colleagues in 1963 and which was published in its 5th edition in 1983 and is still an asset to any neurological book collection today.

Werner Scheid was Dean of the Medical Faculty (1951–1952) and Rector of the University of Cologne (1966–1967), member of the Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) , honorary doctor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich , member of the board of trustees of the International Neuropsychiatric Symposia in Pula / Yugoslavia . In October 1977 he was retired. He had already shared his full professorship in 1968 in order to enable his long-time companion Albrecht Stammler to take up a second full professorship. The German Society for Neurology awarded him the Max-Nun commemorative coin in 1982.

Works

• Psychiatry and the public . Scherpe, Krefeld 1967.
• Textbook of Neurology , together with Hans Heinrich Wieck [u. a.], Thieme, Stuttgart 1963

literature

• Erich Meuthen (ed.): Cologne University History. Data and facts . Cologne (1988)

Web links

Commons : Werner Scheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Werner Scheid in the catalog of the German National Library