Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer

Johann Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer ( born July 11, 1822 in Wiesbaden, † August 9, 1877 in Bendorf ) was a German psychiatrist.

Family

Erlenmeyer was the son of the town priest and dean Dr. Friedrich Erlenmeyer. His brother was the chemist Emil Erlenmeyer, and his son, the psychiatrist Albrecht Erlenmeyer.

Life

Adolph Erlenmeyer studied in Marburg and Bonn. After receiving his doctorate in Berlin, he worked from 1844 to 1846 as an assistant to the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi in Siegburg. Here he wrote his dissertation " De urina mania corum ". Following this work, he went on a long educational journey, visiting all the major asylums. In Prague, he was trained by Josef Gottfried von Riedel and participated in brain sections by Vincent Alexander Bochdalek. In 1854 he was co-founder of the German Society for Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology and took over the editorship of the associated corporate bodies. He settled in Bendorf as general practitioners, where he built an eye clinic. Furthermore Erlenmeyer founded in 1848 an asylum for brain and nervous sick, which he expanded in 1866 by a neurological and 1867 by an agricultural department (Albrecht height). As Jacobi student, he was a supporter of the somatic direction and entered the close unity of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Adolph Erlenmeyer belonged in 1844 to the founders of the fraternity Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn. In 1853 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Works

• The brain atrophy of adults, 1852
• How are mental disorders to treat in its beginning? , 1860 ( Award-winning and in seven languages ​​translated )
• The subcutaneous injections of the drug, 1866
• The embolism of cerebral arteries Arie, 1867
• The syphilitic psychoses, 1876
• The principles of the treatment of epilepsy, 1886