Wolfgang Blankenburg

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Wolfgang Blankenburg (born May 1, 1928 in Bremen , † October 16, 2002 in Marburg ) was a German psychiatrist . He is a representative of phenomenological psychiatry and psychopathology .

Career

Blankenburg studied philosophy and psychology from 1947, and from 1950 also medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1956 he received his doctorate. The subject of his dissertation was an analysis of existence on a patient with paranoid schizophrenia . This disease formed the focus of his further research. In 1957 he began internistic and psychosomatic training in Heidelberg. Two years later he became an assistant and in 1963 senior physician at the psychiatric clinic in Freiburg. There he completed his habilitation in 1967. His habilitation thesis The Loss of Natural Obviousness provided new insights into the experience of people with schizophrenia and was translated into four languages.

In 1969 Blankenburg went to the Heidelberg University Psychiatric Clinic . There, after Walter von Baeyer's retirement, he assumed the position of acting director of the clinic. From 1975 he was director of the Psychiatric Clinic I in Bremen. In 1979 he followed the call to the chair of psychiatry at the University of Marburg . Until his retirement in 1993 he was full professor and head of the Clinic for Psychiatry in Marburg.

He was married to Ute Blankenburg, b. Hägele, and had three children.

Awards

Blankenburg was founded in 1986 by Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation honored for his work “On the body experience of the mentally ill”.

Fonts

  • Existential study of a case of paranoid schizophrenia. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1956.
  • The loss of the natural matter of course. A contribution to the psychopathology of the schizophrenic alienation. Medical habilitation thesis, Freiburg i. B. 1967.
  • Psychopathology of the inconspicuous. Parodos, Berlin 2007.
  • The loss of the natural matter of course. Parodos, Berlin 2012, new edition.
  • Psychiatry and Phenomenology. Alber, Freiburg im Br. 2014.

Translations

  • La perte de l'evidence naturelle. Presses Univ. de France, Paris 1991, 1st éd.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Blankenburg In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ Thomas Fuchs (ed.), Stefano Micali (ed.): Wolfgang Blankenburg - Psychiatrie und Phenomenologie. Alber, Freiburg 2014, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Biographical sketch In: Wolfgang Blankenburg: Psychopathology of the inconspicuous: selected essays. Parodos Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 278.
  4. ^ Topics and award winners 1985 - 1987 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) margritegner.ch. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2002
Place of death Marburg