William Griesinger (* 29. July 1817 in Stuttgart, "† 26. October 1868 in Berlin) be a German psychiatrist and Internist and apply as one the founder the modern, (nature) scientific psychiatry.

Life

Son of Karoline Luise Griesinger, geb. dry and Gottfried Ferdinand Griesinger, donation manager of the hospital in Stuttgart. 1834, with 16 years, put Griesinger down its Abitur and wrote themselves in the same year as a medical student at the University of There it came into conflict with the professor shank and university administration by its political commitment in one at that time still progressive (forbidden later) Burschenschaften, since it occurred some and republican Germany publicly before university members for a free, in addition, by its critical expressions in relation to the romantic medicine taught in which rejected Griesinger as "speculatively ". Together with Julius Robert Mayer it became thereupon for one year of the university referred. It continued its studies with Johann Lukas beautiful flax in Zurich and attained a doctorate finally 1838 with a thesis over Diphtheritis in

From there it turned to Paris, in order to extend its clinical knowledge. He became acquainted with Magendie, the founder of the experimental physiology and author of the first modern text book of the physiology, whose research beginning affected him strongly. it moved to 1839 as a practicing physician to Friedrichshafen at the Bodensee. Already in the year following on it it received the offer to work under director Ernst Albert von Zeller as a secondary physician on the mad mental hospital Winnenthal In the next two years, which were active there he, Griesinger collected a large wealth at practical experiences, that the basis its 1845 published Hauptwerkes "the pathology and therapy of the psychological diseases "(Stuttgart: Crab) became. Griesinger undertook the attempt to justify the psychiatry from the medical physiology and pathology. Already on the first side is Griesingers famous utterance, according to which it is necessary to understand each disease symptom to locate the phenomenon concerned and to recognize all psychological diseases as illnesses of the brain.

Before the publication of its new, materialistic beginning in the psychiatry, which soon far spreading in Germany should experience, Griesinger had undertaken 1842 further study trips to Paris and Vienna, for short time than physician in Stuttgart had established themselves and soon thereafter, 1843, a call on the place of a Assistenzarztes to the medical hospital in had accepted, where he habilitierte in the same year and took up its training activity as a private lecturer in pathology, Materia medica and medicine history. 1847 it was then appointed as the extraordinary professor.

1849 followed a call as a director of the university clinic Kiel, where he operated neuroanatomical research. 1850 married Griesinger Josephine of Rome, with which together he left Germany for political reasons still in the same year, in order to begin a place as a body physician of the Egyptian viceroy Abbas pasha, with which the tasks of the director of the medical school in Cairo as well as the president for the entire Medizinalwesen Egypt were connected. In this time Griesinger collected a majority of its material for its later papers over "clinical and anatomical observations over the diseases of Egypt. "(In: Archives for physiological medicine, Stuttgart, 1854, 13, P. 528-575.) and over "the Infectionskrankheiten "in Virchows manual of the speciellen pathology and therapy. Attain (; Enke, 1857.)

1852 turned Griesinger and its wife back to Stuttgart. 1854 became Griesinger full professor for clinical medicine at the University of and successor of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich as a director of the medical hospital. 1859 transferred Griesinger the line of the 1847 created welfare and educational establishment Maria mountain with Gammertingen one of the first mechanisms for children and young people with a mental handicap to Germany.

1860 left Griesinger Germany again and transferred the line of the hospital for internal medicine to Zurich. At the same time it developed a plan for the building of a modern lunatic asylum in the canton Zurich, which was converted 1865 with the opening of the psychiatric university clinic "in this time as a member of the Medizinalkommission.

One year before had already accepted Griesinger the call on a Professur to the in Berlin, where he became a director of the psychiatric hospital at the same time. It made numerous reform suggestions and ensured for the fact that the lunatic asylum of the a nerve station was attached. 1867 it created "the citizens of Berlin Medicinisch psychological society ", their presidency it took over and published the first expenditure "archives for psychiatry and nervous diseases ".

In the summer 1868 Griesinger at a Perityphlitis got sick, to an abscess of the blind intestine. After operation of the abscess the wound infected itself with Diphtherie, that infection, over which Griesinger in its thesis had written. He deceased on 26 October 1868 in Berlin. Griesingers grave is on the old pc. - Kirchhof in the in Berlin beautiful mountain.

1968, to Griesingers 100. Day of death, was renamed "the institute for Epilepti Wuhlegarten with Biesdorf "in William Griesinger hospital.

Life data in the overview

• 1817 - born on 29 July in Stuttgart as a son of Karoline Luise Griesinger, geb. dry and Gottfried Ferdinand Griesinger
• 1834 - Abitur; in the same year beginning of the study of the medicine in
• 1837 - Reference of the University of because of political activities and intermediate study in Zurich with Johann Lukas beautiful flax
• 1838 - Graduation in Study trip to Paris and acquaintance with Magendie
• 1839 - practicing physician in Friedrichshafen at the Bodensee
• 1840 - Secondary physician at the lunatic asylum Winnenthal
• 1842 - practicing physician in Stuttgart; Cooperation at "archives for physiological medicine "; further study trips to Paris and Vienna
• 1843 - Assistenzarzt at the medical hospital in Habilitation and Privatdozentur for pathology, Materia Medica and medicine history
• 1845 - Publication of the book "the pathology and therapy of the psychological diseases "(Stuttgart; Crab)
• 1847 - Appointment to the extraordinary professor; Editor "of archives for physiological medicine "
• 1849 - Tidy professor and director of the university clinic Kiel; neuroanatomical brain research at there pathological Institut
• 1850 - Marriage with Josephine of Rome; Body physician of the Egyptian viceroy Abbas pasha, director of the medical school in Cairo and president of the entire Medizinalwesens in Egypt
• 1852 - Return from Egypt to Stuttgart
• 1854 - Full professor for clinical medicine in and successor of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-1877) at the medical hospital
• 1857 - Publication of the book "Infectionskrankheiten: Malaria diseases, yellow fever, typhoid fever, plague, Cholera "attain (; Enke)
• 1859 - Line of the welfare and educational establishment Maria mountain with Gammertingen
• 1860 - Director of the hospital for internal medicine in Zurich; Professur for internal medicine; Member of the Medizinalkommission; Concept for the building of a modern lunatic asylum in the canton Zurich (1865 opened as clinical center ")
• 1864 - Director of the psychiatric hospital of the in Berlin center
• 1867 - Establishment and presidency "of the citizens of Berlin Medicinisch psychological society "(since 1879 "citizen of Berlin society for psychiatry and nervous diseases "; since 1933 "citizen of Berlin society for psychiatry and neurology "); Publisher "of archives for psychiatry and nervous diseases "
• 1868 - died on 26 October in Berlin

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