Franz Josef Kallmann

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Franz Josef Kallmann
Kallmann's syndrome
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry

Franz Josef Kallmann, MD (July 24, 1897 – May 12, 1965), a German-born American

psychiatric disorders. He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis
of psychiatric disease.

Kallmann was born in

Nazi Germany.[4] In a speech delivered in 1935, while still in Germany, he advocated the examination of relatives of schizophrenia patients with the aim to find and sterilize the "nonaffected carriers" of the supposed recessive gene responsible for the condition.[5]

In 1944, he described a

Kallmann's syndrome
.

He was a member of the American Eugenics Movement during the first half of 1900.[6][7]

In 1948, he became one of the founders of the American Society of Human Genetics.[4]

He died in New York.

Partial bibliography

  • The genetics of schizophrenia; a study of heredity and reproduction of the families of 1,087 schizophrenics. New York: JJ Augustin, 1938. 291 ss.
  • Kallmann FJ, Reisner FJ. Twin studies on the significance of genetic factors in tuberculosis. The American Review of Tuberculosis 47, s. 549 (1943)
  • The genetic aspects of primary eunocchoidism (1944)
  • The genetic theory of schizophrenia. The American Journal of Psychiatry 103: 309 (1946)
  • Modern concepts of genetics in relation to mental health and abnormal personality development. Psychiatric Quarterly 21, 4, 535-553 (1947) DOI:10.1007/BF01654317
  • The genetics of psychoses; an analysis of 1,232 twin index families. American Journal of Human Genetics 4, ss. 385–390 (1950)
  • Heredity in Health and Mental Disorder (1953)
  • Zur Symptomatologie der Gehirnzystizerkose. Mschr. Psychiat. Neur. (1929)
  • Marcuse H, Kallmann F. Zur Sulfosinbehandlung der Paralyse und Schizophrenie. Nervenarzt 2: 149-53 (1929)

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Who was who in America". Marquis-Who's Who. 17 February 1968 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "RootsWeb.com Home Page". freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com.
  3. ^ Obituary Franz Joseph Kallman, 1897-1965, The American Journal of Psychiatry, July 1966, Issue 123 pages 105-106
  4. ^
    PMID 19759092
    .
  5. ^ Muller-Hill B. Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933–1945.Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1988: 11, 31, 42–43, 70.
  6. S2CID 205664888
    . Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  7. ISBN 978-0-465-02014-0
    . Retrieved 7 February 2021.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franz_Josef_Kallmann&oldid=1188510483"