Otto Binswanger

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Otto Binswanger (1852-1929)

Otto Ludwig Binswanger (

physiotherapist Heinrich Averbeck (1844–1889). Other notable family members include his son-in-law Hans-Constantin Paulssen (1892-1984), who was the first president of the BDA (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände) (Confederation of German Employers' Associations
).

Biography

Otto studied medicine at

Breslau, and in 1880 was appointed chief physician under Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) in the psychiatric and neurological clinic at Charité Hospital in Berlin. From 1882 until 1919, he was a professor and director of psychology at the University of Jena. At Jena he worked with several young neurologists that included Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), Oskar Vogt (1870–1959), Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), and Hans Berger (1873–1941).[2] In 1911 he attained the title of rector at the university.[3]

Binswanger wrote over 100 publications, most notably on epilepsy, neurasthenia and hysteria. His 1899 textbook on epilepsy (Die Epilepsie) became a standard in the profession.[2][4] In his histopathological research he sought to explain similarities and differences between progressive paralysis and other types of organic brain disease.[5] With neurologist Ernst Siemerling (1857-1931), he was co-author of an influential textbook on psychiatry titled Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie (1904).[6]

In 1894 he described a condition he called "encephalitis subcorticalis chronica progressiva", which would later go by the name of "Binswanger's disease".[7][8][2] This disease is defined as subcortical dementia characterized by loss of memory and intellectual faculties. One of his more famous patients was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, others were the writers (later on) Hans Fallada and Johannes R. Becher.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Deutschsprachige Neurologen und Psychiater by Alma Kreuter
  2. ^ a b c Psychiatry Online (biography)
  3. ^ Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Rector's speeches of the 19th and 20th century - Online Bibliography
  4. ^ Google Books – Die Epilepsie
  5. ^ American Journal of Psychiatry
  6. ^ Google Books – Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie
  7. PMID 14481961
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  8. ISBN 978-3-662-03078-3
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  9. ^ Department of Uniklinikum Jena Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  10. ^ Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Henry van de Velde Year in Germany and Belgium: Part One
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