Wilhelm Jung (psychiatrist)

Paul August Wilhelm Jung (* 1830 in Potsdam ; † June 6, 1908 in Liegnitz ) was a German psychiatrist and director of the Silesian insane sanatorium in Leubus .

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Jung studied medicine in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1853 . He was licensed as a general practitioner , surgeon and obstetrician and worked in 1858/59 as a doctor in the insane department at the Diakonissenanstalt in Kaiserswerth . Here he took the physics exam and went first as the third doctor to the Provincial Insane Sanatorium Leubus under Moritz Martini . At that time, the Leubus asylum was located in the former Leubus Monastery and had 170 beds in the so-called public sanatorium in the convent building and a further 44 in the prelature of the “pension institution” for wealthy sick people.

After Martini's resignation, Jung took over the management of the institution in 1873. He abolished compulsory treatment and founded the Silesian Aid Association for the Mentally Ill in 1875 . In the same year he started a "Psychiatric Course for Students" in the institution. Jung was appointed to the medical council and resigned in 1884. His successor was Wilhelm Alter senior .

Fonts

• De necrosi . Diss. Med. Berlin 1853.
• Investigations into the hereditary nature of mental disorders . In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 21 (1864), pp. 534-653.
• A few more investigations into the hereditary nature of mental disorders . In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 23 (1866), pp. 211-257.
• The development of the insane being in Silesia in general and the Leubus insane asylum in particular, along with statistical results from it and their conclusions. In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 38 (1882), pp. 355-368.
• About madness . In: Allg. Magazine f. Psychiatrie 38 (1882), pp. 561-576.

literature

• Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century, Vol. 2, Saur, Munich 1996.
• Holger Steinberg: The Silesian Provincial Insane Asylum Leubus in the 19th century with special consideration of the work of Emil Kraepelin. Würzburg medical history reports 21, 2002, pp. 533–553; especially pp. 537-539.