Viktor baron von (* 21 April 1886 in Stuttgart; "† 9 January 1957 in Heidelberg) was a German physician. It is considered as a founder of the psychosomatischen medicine and the medical anthropology. He is the brother of Ernst von

Life

After its Abitur at the Humanisti High School in the year 1904 studied Viktor of medicine in There it was member the South German liberalism coining/shaping student connection academic society Stuttgardia. Later it still studied in Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg. Here he became acquainted with 1908 his fellow student Arthur Kronfeld, who together with its friend Otto Meyerhof sought to interest him in the philosophy of Leonard Nelson and Jakob Friedrich Fries and probably also with the writings Freuds admits made. Common lecture attendance with William diaper volume up to personal contacts with Hans Driesch and other philosopher in Heidelberg such as Hans's honour mountain are too abandoned the material background for the "temptation, the medicine and - philosopher to become", of which he reported later. But it remained faithful for its interest in the physiology and attained a doctorate on 28 June 1910 with the internalists Paul Morawitz with a work over the blood speed. In this time it could be interested like Meyerhof in the hospital Ludolf of Krehls of Otto being castle in the physiology of the heart. Like it it habilitierte itself then later over its energy metabolisms in the First World War, while which was he first with Verdun in use and later with Krehl for the inspection of field hospitals responsible.

Starting from 1920, which year, in which it married itself with the daughter of the novelists Ernst Robert Curtius, it led the neurological department at the Krehl' hospital in Heidelberg. 1926 it visited Sigmund Freud; this attendance had a central meaning for its further work. In the same year its writing of pieces of a medical anthropology in the magazine published by Martin Buber and Joseph Wittig appeared the creature, with whom it was from to 1928 co-editors. 1932 he formulated his ideas to the shape circle, with which he sought to represent the unit of perception and movement theoretically.

1941 became in follow-up of Otfrid Foerster neurology professor in Breslau and leader of its Institut, at whom also Hirne of killed patients were examined. In January 1945 it fled from there and could in August to Heidelberg kommissarisch the line of the physiological institute transfer, before it received then the Ordinariat for general Klinik medicine, from which the Psychosomati department of the today's Krehlklinik in Heidelberg developed; a station is there designated to its memory after it. Into years 1952 it survived its retirement illness not for a long time. Its career/development, which continued to lead him from the physiology to the internal medicine and to the neurology and Psychotherapie, he wrote 1944 down in Breslau. It was published under the title "nature and spirit".

See also

Literature

• Karl Heinz Roth, Psychosomati medicine and" euthanasia ": The case Viktor of in: 1999. Magazine for social history 20. and 21. Century, I/1986, S.65-99

• Stephan Dressler, Viktor of Medical anthropology and philosophy. Vienna, Berlin 1989 (Ueberreuter science, Viennese studies to the medicine, history and philosophy 1)

Related links

• Viktor of '' collected writings ''
• Homepage of the Viktor of Weizsaecker society
• Hospital for Psychosomati and general one clinical medicine Heidelberg
• To the various entangling of neurology and psychiatry in the third realm

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