Moritz Benedikt
Moritz Benedikt | |
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criminal anthropology | |
Medical career | |
Profession | Physician, Professor |
Institutions | University of Vienna |
Sub-specialties | electrotherapeutics and neuropathology |
Moritz Benedikt also spelt Moriz (4 July 1835, in
Early life and education
He was born in Eisenstadt in Hungary. He got his medical education in Vienna, where he studied under Hyrtl, Briicke, Skoda, Oppolzer, Rokitansky and other well-known teachers, and qualified in 1859.
Career
He was an instructor and professor of neurology at the University of Vienna. Benedikt was a physician with the Austrian army during the Second Italian War of Independence (1859) and the Austro-Prussian War.
Benedikt was a specialist in the fields of
Legacy
Benedikt is remembered today for his controversial research in
Benedikt is credited for coining the word "darsonvalisation" to describe
Benedikt also took an interest in dowsing (radiesthesia), writing two books on this subject Leitfaden der Rutenlehre (eng. Guideline to use of Divining Rods) and Ruten- und Pendellehre (eng. Instructions in Diving Rods and Pendulums)
Publications
- Moriz Benedikt: Die psychologischen Funktionen des Gehirnes in gesundem und kranker Zustand, Wiener Klinik: Vorträge; Jg. 1, H. 7, Wien, 1875
- Moriz Benedikt: Zur Lehre von der Localisation der Gehirnfunctionen, Wiener Klinik: Vorträge; Jg. 9, H. 5-6, Vienna, 1875
- Moriz Benedikt: Ueber Katalepsie und Mesmerismus, Wiener Klinik: Vorträge; Jg. 6, H. 3/4, Vienna, 1880
- Moriz Benedikt: Ueber Elektricität in der Medicin, Wiener Klinik: Vorträge; Jg. 10, H. 2, Vienna, 1884
- Moriz Benedikt: Grundformeln des neuropathologischen Denkens, Wiener Klinik: Vorträge; Jg. 11, H. 4, Vienna, 1885
- Moriz Benedikt: Hypnotismus und Suggestion, Breitenstein, Leipzig, 1894
- Moriz Benedikt: Seelenkunde des Menschen als reine Erfahrungswissenschaft, Reisland, Leipzig, 1895
- Moriz Benedikt: Krystallisation und Morphogenesis, Perles, Vienna, 1904
- Moriz Benedikt: Aus meinem Leben: Erinnerungen und Erörterungen, Konegen, Vienna, 1906
- Moriz Benedikt: Biomechanik und Biogenesis, Fischer], Jena, 1912
- Moriz Benedikt: Die latenten (Reichenbach'schen) Emanationen der Chemikalien, Konegen, Vienna, 1915
- Moriz Benedikt: Leitfaden der Rutenlehre (Wünschelrute), Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, 1916; modern edition ISBN 978-3956922411
- Moriz Benedikt: Ruten- und Pendellehre, Hartleben, Vienna, 1917
Sources
- [1] Moritz Benedikt’s Localization of Morality in the Occipital Lobes
- Short Biography of Moritz Benedikt
- Darsonvalisation @ Who Named It
- Moriz Benedikt (1906). Aus meinem Leben. C. Konegen. p. 299.
Aus meinem Leben: Erinnerungen und Erörterungen.
, Dr Moritz Benedikt, Verlagsbuchhandlung Carl Konegen, Vienna, 1906.
References
- ^ "Darsonvalization". Medical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 April 2017. Sources which cite power [sic] of 100–200 mA should be disregarded; this implies power in the order of kilowatts.