Karl Wilhelm Ideler

Karl Wilhelm Ideler ( born October 25, 1795 in Bentwisch at Wittenberg; † July 29, 1860 in Cumlosen at Wittenberg ) was a German psychiatrist.

Ideler studied medicine at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1820 to the doctor. In 1828, he was medical director of the department for the insane at the Charité in Berlin as successor to Karl Georg Neumann. He habilitated in 1831 and in 1839 associate professor in Berlin. Ideler in 1840 full professor and director of the Psychiatric Clinic in Berlin.

His uncle was the astronomer and mathematician Christian Ludwig Ideler.

Idelers main work plan of psychiatry (1835 )

Case descriptions with portraits of patients ( 1841)

Writings

• Anthropology for Physicians (1827 )
• Outline of psychiatry. 2 vols, published by Theod. Enslin, Berlin 1835-1838. Digitized Volume 1, Volume 2 Digitalisat
• Langer husband and steel as the founder of psychiatry (1835 )
• Biographies of the mentally ill in their psychological development. Publisher E. H. Schröder, Berlin 1841
• The mental illness in relation to the administration of justice (1844 )
• The religious madness, illustrated by case histories. A contribution to the history of religious turmoil of the present. Schwetschke, Halle ( Saale), 1847 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
• The general dietetics for educated people (1848 )
• The madness in its psychological and social significance: illustrated by case histories; a contribution to practical philosophy (1848 )
• Attempt at a theory of religious insanity: a contribution to the critique of religious turmoil of the present. Publisher Schwetschke, Hall 1848-1850. Part 1: The phenomena of religious insanity. Hall 1848 digitized
• Part 2: The development of religious insanity. Hall 1850 digitized