Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser ( born January 24, 1853 in Rhaunen, Rhine Province; † January 4, 1931 ) was a German psychiatrist.

Life

His father Peter Joseph Ganser was a notary, married to Catherine Jonas.

Ganser studied medicine in Würzburg, Strasbourg, and Munich at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. There he received his doctorate in 1876. After a brief period as assistant to Franz von Rinecker at the Psychiatric Clinic in Würzburg, he went in 1877 as assistant to Bernard of Gudden to the circle asylum in Munich. Here he completed his habilitation in 1880 on the anatomy of mole brains. In 1884, he was senior physician at the Brandenburg State Institute Sorau under Adolf Schmidt. In 1886 he followed Emil Kraepelin as directing physician of the asylum department at the General Hospital Dresden- Friedrichstadt after and became a professor at the University of Dresden. Under his leadership, developed from the insane department, the Municipal healing and nursing home for the mentally ill and the infirm.

1897 Ganser described for the first time which was later named after him Ganser syndrome. He relied on his case made ​​as forensic Psychoneurologe during his tenure observations. There Ganser had identified at three remand prisoners for the first time such symptoms as " hysterical twilight ".

In 1889 he married Mary Sophia Cloete - Brown. With her he had two children: Herbert (1893 ) and Sibylla (1894 ).

1908 Ganser was appointed to the Privy medical officer and an associate member of the Royal Saxon State Health Council. In 1924 he retired.

Writings

• About the front Hirncommissur of mammals. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 9, 1879, pp. 286-299, doi: 10.1007/BF02666472.
• About the Anatomy of the front hill from Corpus quadrigeminum. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 11, 1880, pp. 278-281.
• On the anatomy of the cat retina. In: Journal of comparative ophthalmology. 1, 1882, p 139
• Concerning the peripheral and centrale arrangement of the optic nerve fibers and the anterior corpus bigeminum. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 13, 1882, pp. 341-381, doi: 10.1007/BF02013534.
• Comparative anatomical studies of the brain of the mole. In: Morphological yearbook. 7, 1882, pp. 591-725.
• How do you establish in the field most of the so-called iron hand for troops? In: Archives for hygiene. 3, 1885, pp. 500-520.
• Demonstration of a patient with aphasia and hemianopia. In: Annual Report of the Society for Nature and Medicine in Dresden 1887/188. 1888, pp. 147-149.
• On Some symptoms of hysteria and the relationship of hysteria to alcoholism. In: Annual Report of the Society for Nature and Medicine in Dresden 1893/1894. 1894, pp. 119-133.
• About a peculiar hysterical twilight. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 30, 1898, pp. 633-640, doi: 10.1007/BF02036039.
• The neurasthenic mental disorder. In: Festschrift in honor of the anniversary of the fünfzigjahrigen city hospital in Dresden - Friedrichstadt. Baensch, Dresden 1899, pp. 81-89.
• Drunkenness - a curable disease. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Saxon State Association against the abuse of spirituous liquors in chub on 23 June 1901. Dresden 1901.
• Delirium tremens. In: General Journal of Psychiatry. 59, 1902, p 542
• For the doctrine of the hysterical Dämmerzustande. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 38, 1904, pp. 34-46, doi: 10.1007/BF02173461.
• Treatment of delirium tremens. In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift. 54, 1907, pp. 120-122.
• Alcohol and mental illness. Paper presented at the National Association of Saxony, held against the abuse of spirituous liquors from 3 to June 10, 1908 academic course for the study of alcohol question. Dresden 1909.
• About hysteria. In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift. 59, 1912, page 48
• B. v. Gudden. In: Theodor Kirchhoff ( ed.): German alienists. Single images of her life and work. Volume 2 Springer, Berlin 1924, p 47