Wilhelm Leube

Wilhelm Leube (1879)

Johann Wilhelm Leube (born April 4, 1799 in Hall , † January 6, 1881 in Ulm ) was a German psychiatrist .

Live and act

He was the brother of Gustav Ernst Leube and the father of Wilhelm von Leube (actually Wilhelm Olivier von Leube). Wilhelm Leube grew up in Ulm and attended grammar school there. He studied medicine in Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1821 under Leopold Sokrates Riecke . On behalf of the Württemberg government, he went on extensive study trips to Paris and the Netherlands, where he visited the insane asylums there and wrote a report. In 1825 he married Luise Uhland (1801–1837), a cousin of the poet Ludwig Uhland , and settled in Tübingen as a general practitioner. After his wife died in 1837, he moved to Ulm and remarried. After he had first worked in his own practice, he was employed from 1854 as a medical advisor to the government of the Danube District . He died in 1881 at the age of 81.

Wilhelm Leube gained importance for science through his work as a private lecturer in Tübingen, where he has regularly given psychiatric lectures since 1825. In 1828 he submitted a "draft for a new insane asylum" to the Medical College, which was a department of the Interior Ministry. It should improve medical teaching in psychiatry. However, this plan, like a second one in 1831, was rejected. A university psychiatry was not to be given to Tübingen until 1894.

During his years in Tübingen, Wilhelm Leube also treated the poet Friedrich Hölderlin while caring for the Ernst and Lotte Zimmer household . This is mentioned in letters from January 1829 and in a report from Wilhelm Leube to the Royal Superior Office from 1832.

Fonts

Adnotationes ad coxarthrocacen. Schoenhardt, Tübingen 1821 (dissertation).
The statutory provisions on imputation with special consideration for the same in the drafts of a penal law book for the Kingdom of Württemberg. Viewed from a medical point of view. Osiander, Tübingen 1836; 2nd, revised edition 1838 ( digitized ).
with Gustav Leube: Investigations into the mineral material of the area around Ulm with regard to its usability for building purposes and especially its importance for the fortress construction. Kübling, Ulm 1843 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Johann Wilhelm von Leube , family data of the Paul Wolfgang Merkelschen Family Foundation Nuremberg, accessed on March 9, 2015.
↑ Hans Gies: The Württemberg Leube. Constance 1927; Pp. 33-36.
↑ Georg Wiedemann , Gerhard Buchkremer (Ed.): Mehrdimensionalale Psychiatrie. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena / Lübeck / Ulm 1997, p. 15.
^ Gregor Wittkop (Ed.): Hölderlin. The foster son. Texts and documents 1806–1843 with the newly discovered Nürtingen foster care files. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, pp. 165, 181.

personal data
SURNAME	Leube, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leube, Johann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hall
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1881
Place of death	Ulm

[1] Johann Wilhelm von Leube , family data of the Paul Wolfgang Merkelschen Family Foundation Nuremberg, accessed on March 9, 2015.

[2] Hans Gies: The Württemberg Leube. Constance 1927; Pp. 33-36.

[3] Georg Wiedemann , Gerhard Buchkremer (Ed.): Mehrdimensionalale Psychiatrie. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena / Lübeck / Ulm 1997, p. 15.

[4] Gregor Wittkop (Ed.): Hölderlin. The foster son. Texts and documents 1806–1843 with the newly discovered Nürtingen foster care files. JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, pp. 165, 181.