Friedrich Groos

Friedrich Groos ( born April 23 1768 in Karlsruhe, † June 15, 1852 in Eberbach / Neckar ) was a German physician and philosopher.

The son of Baden Court and church council Emanuel Groos studied from 1788 law in Tübingen and Stuttgart. In 1792, he studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau and Pavia. In 1796 he received his doctorate and worked in the town physician in Karlsruhe.

During a serious illness he immersed himself in the writings of the Stoics. From 1805 to 1813, he worked as a physician in Odenheim, Gochscheim, Karlsruhe and in Stein near Pforzheim. In 1814 he succeeded by Johann Christian scooters as a senior physician in the insane and infirm Institute in Pforzheim.

With the transfer of the asylum in 1826, he moved to Heidelberg. He also lectured on psychiatry and entered 1836 in retirement. The departure of the activity as a physician was honored with the award of the Knight's Cross of the Lion Zähringerplatz North.

He belongs with his writings to the direction of romance around 1800. He had written writings on philosophy, medicine, psychology, psychiatry and forensic medicine. He led mental illnesses due to both psychological as well as to spiritual causes. It assesses the causes of " unlucky association and the confluence of a mental or moral and an organic abnormality. " The appropriate treatment could therefore only be physically and psychologically.

Works

• Reflections on the moral freedom and immortality. 1818
• About the homeopathic Heilprincip. A critical word. 1825
• Studies on the moral and organic conditions of Irreseyns and viciousness. 1826
• Design of a philosophical basis for the doctrine of mental illness. 1828
• Ideas to the creation of a supreme Princip for mental Legal Medicine. 1829
• The path through the atrium of political freedom to the Temple of moral freedom. 1849, in his autobiography