Emanuel Mendel

Emanuel Mendel ( born October 28, 1839 in Boleslawiec, Boleslawiec today in Lower Silesia, † June 23, 1907 in Pankow in Berlin) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist as well as politicians.

Life

Mendel studied in Breslau and Berlin, medicine and graduated in 1860 about epilepsy. During his studies, he became in 1856 a member of the fraternity Raczeks. He then worked in the practice of the Pankow physician Edward Heymann. He took over the practice in 1864 and established in 1868 a clinic for nervous patients in the Pankow Broad Street 18/18a one. As a result, he specialized in neurology and psychiatry, an intern with Rudolf Virchow and Wilhelm Griesinger and habilitated in 1873. From 1884 he taught with an extraordinary professorship at the University of Berlin in psychiatry and neurology, and forensic psychiatry and became director of the mental hospital. In 1885 he handed over the management of his own mental hospital and sold to Gustav Scho Linus these ten years later. Sigmund Freud had shadowed in 1886 Mendel Institute and published in the journal Neurology Centralblatt that Mendel had founded in 1882 and edited until his death. Then took Mendel's son Kurt editorship.

Emanuel Mendel was a member of the Progressive Party of the district council Niederbarnim. In 1893, he facilitated the donation of land to build a water plant in Pankow. On his initiative, a hospital in 1905 /06 in the Galenusstraße in Pankow built. Presented to commemorate the community Pankow 1911 a marble bust of Mendel in the garden of the hospital, which was removed in 1935 by the Nazis and is lost. For two terms Mendel was also from 1877 to 1881 member of the Reichstag, where he became involved in health issues. In 1906 he was awarded the title "Secret Medizinalrat " award. At his death he left behind his wife Susan, two sons, Kurt and Fritz and daughters Gertrude and Charlotte. He was as the only Pankow citizens the honor of being in state in the great hall of the town hall.

Work

Mendel was concerned mainly with the study and treatment of progressive paralysis, mania and epilepsy. Theodor pulling praised his performance here, Mendel created the psychiatric monograph for Germany only. He stood for a synthesis of psychiatry and neurology. In 1893 he led an extract of the Australian plant Duboisia myoporoides in Parkinson's therapy. He ran a clinic with laboratory, which was indeed affiliated with the university, but it did not belong. After his death in 1907 his pupil Louis Jacobsohn - Lask took over the management until the closure of the Institute in 1914. Among his more famous pupils also include Max Bielschowsky ( 1869-1940 ), Edward Flatau ( 1869-1932 ) and Lazar Minor ( 1855-1942 ).

In the district of Pankow already in 1893 a road was built during the construction of the water works, named after him. In 1938 the street was named in elmstrasse, but received 1947 back its old name. Even a primary school in Pankow is named after him. 2003 also the Mendel family was Straße 44 unveiled a plaque in the width at the former home.

Publications

• De operationibus ad sanandam epilepsiam adhibitis: Adjectis duabus observationibus. Berlin 1860.
• The progressive paralysis of the insane. Berlin 1880.
• The mania. A monograph. . Vienna 1881 reprint: VDM, Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1899-7.
• Hypnotism. Hamburg 1889.
• The hereditary syphilis in its relations to the development of diseases of the nervous system. Berlin 1896.
• Guide psychiatry for Studi Rende of Medicine. Enke, Stuttgart 1902 Mach pressure. VDM, Müller, Saarbrücken, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86550-935-2.