Wilhelm Erb

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Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
The tomb of Wilhelm Erb in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (born November 30, 1840 in Winnweiler in the Palatinate ; † October 29, 1921 in Heidelberg ) was a German internist, pathologist and neurologist. Erb made important contributions to the development of modern neurology .

Life

The 1857 study of started medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen ended Erb 1861 in Munich with the medical state examination. He initially assisted at the Munich Pathological Institute and at the age of 22 he became assistant to Nicolaus Friedreich at the Medical University Clinic in Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1864 with a thesis on the physiological and therapeutic effects of picric acid . He dealt with this topic again in his habilitation thesis , with which he qualified for internal medicine in 1865 . Erb was appointed associate professor at Heidelberg University in 1869.

In 1880 Wilhelm Erb was appointed to Leipzig as associate professor of special pathology and therapy and director of the medical outpatient clinic. At that time, Leipzig was a prominent center of neuroscience and Erb was able to work with doctors and scientists such as Adolf von Strümpell , Julius Cohnheim , Karl Weigert , Paul Flechsig , Paul Julius Möbius or Wilhelm His sen. work together. Although he saw that this represented a great human and scientific gain for him, he left Leipzig with a heavy heart at Easter 1883, because the Saxon authorities did not comply with his wish to be able to set up an inpatient neurology department. Finally he accepted the appointment as director of a newly built medical clinic and full professor of internal medicine back to Heidelberg. He stayed here until his retirement in 1907.

Wilhelm Erb found his final resting place in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) , where he was buried in the family grave. The tomb is made of shell limestone and adorned with a bronze relief in the upper area of ​​the stele. There the goddess of healing, Hygieia , is shown seated with a scroll in her hands. A bowl and a staff of Aesculapia can be seen in the background . The relief was made by Eduard Beyer the Elder. J. worked.

power

With his demand in 1905 at the opening speech at the congress for internal medicine, "The nerve pathology (neurology) takes a whole man to the full if he wants to promote it scientifically and to be active in teaching and practice in a satisfactory way" Wilhelm Erb was decisive involved in the establishment of the Society of German Neurologists , today's German Society for Neurology , in 1907, of which he became the first chairman. In 1908 the society's meeting took place in Heidelberg. At this conference, Erb gave a lecture on the diagnosis of syphilis of the nervous system and emphasized the importance of reliable evidence of the syphilitic origin in order to apply the correct therapy.

The scientific work of Wilhelm Erb is characterized by clinical breadth with extension to the entire neurology and neuropathology . He was occupied with the work on the clinic and electrophysiology of paralysis of peripheral nerves , studies on tabes dorsalis , on pathology and clinic of spinal cord diseases . Erb devoted himself particularly intensively to the more detailed study of muscle atrophies . This happened in his great work Dystrophia musculorum progressiva (1891), in which he identified several forms and, with convincing reasons, differentiated them from spinal diseases.

Wilhelm Erb had a certain significance as a “neurologist” in the early history of psychoanalysis through his work On the Growing Nervousness of Our Time , which Sigmund Freud cited in detail in The 'cultural' sexual morality and modern nervousness (1908).

Within the academic teaching of the universities, Erb problematized intellectual overhaul as harmful, especially in the case of the "teachers' examination that is now frequently in demand".

On September 7, 1914, Wilhelm Erb was one of the signatories of the "Declaration of German University Teachers", in which all English academic awards were waived, on the grounds that England had "been inciting the peoples against Germany" for years and had now declared war on Germany .

Honors and Posthumes

The most important works of Wilhelm Erb

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literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Erb, William Henry. 2005, p. 366.
  2. ↑ Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages . Verlag Regionalkultur, 2008, p. 65 f.
  3. ↑ German Society for Neurology: History. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Franz Gebegti: The meetings of the German Neurological Society from its foundation in 1906 to 1933 as a mirror of neurological research . Dissertation Institute of History a. Ethics d. Medicine Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , academic advisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , 2008.
  5. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann : Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 2nd edition 2001, 3rd edition 2006 (online resource), Springer Verlag Heidelberg, here: Wilhelm Erb (entry by Erich Kuhn).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : From madness to madness. Notes on the conceptual history of a disruption of perception in medical and cultural history from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century , here on Wilhelm Erb in: 5. Excursus: Nervousness and delusion as a type of reaction in modern times, in: Silke Leopold and Agnes Speck (eds.) : Hysteria and madness , Heidelberger Frauenstudien Volume 7, Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg 2000, pp. 19–22.
  7. ^ Heinrich Schipperges : Doctors in Heidelberg. A chronicle from "Homo Heidelbergensis" to "Medicine in Motion" , Edition Braus Heidelberg 1995, pp. 174-175, with an insert by Wolfgang U. Eckart 2006, ISBN 3-89466-125-9 .
  8. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medicine and War. Germany 1914-1924 , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag Paderborn, p. 33, on Wilhelm Erb's role and his reflections on "nervousness" in the pre-war years, which were effective for the public, also p. 23-25, ISBN 978-3-506-75677-0 .
  9. ^ Member entry of Wilhelm Heinrich Erb at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 24, 2013.
  10. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Wilhelm Erb. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Ludolf von Krehl Clinic: Station Erb , accessed on December 22, 2016.
  12. ^ A b Paul Girard: History of Neurology , in: Illustrated history of medicine. (Jean-Charles Sournia, Jacques Poulet, Marcel Martiny: Histoire de la médicine, de la pharmacie, de l'art dentaire et de l'art vétérinaire. Ed. By Albin Michel-Laffont-Tchou and colleagues, Paris 1977–1980, 8 volumes) German adaptation by Richard Toellner with the collaboration of Wolfgang Eckart , Nelly Tsouyopoulos , Axel Hinrich Murken and Peter Hucklenbroich, 9 volumes, Salzburg 1980–1982; also as a special edition in six volumes, ibid. 1986, vol. 2 of the special edition, pp. 1149 + 1150.
personal data
SURNAME Erb, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erb, Wilhelm Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnweiler , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1921
Place of death Heidelberg