Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller ( born January 11, 1802 in Pforzheim, † January 4, 1878 in Achern ) was a German psychiatrist. He was the founder and longtime head of medical and nursing home Illenau Achern.
Life
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller was the second child of seven children from the marriage of the physician Johann Christian scooters and scooter Auguste Wilhelmine, born Finner. The eldest sister died as an infant, so that he grew up as the eldest of five siblings. From an early age his life was influenced by the work of his father, who ran the madhouse in Pforzheim from 1804 until death in 1814. In 1814 he and his father ill with typhoid fever. While his father died of illness at the age of 40, he overcame them.
From 1818 to 1821 he studied medicine in Tübingen and Göttingen. After successful graduation, he settled as a physician in Pforzheim. In 1825 he traveled on behalf of the Grand Ducal Government various asylums in Europe to study the handling and treatment of patients. In 1827 he became assistant physician at the Heidelberg Madhouse and directed it from 1835 to 1842. Strongly influenced by his study trip and the poor conditions in Heidelberg, he sat together with the Head Friedrich Groos for the construction of a larger and more modern institution, which then by Hans Voss was planned and built. In 1831 he presented in his book " The lunatic asylum in all their relationships shown ", as such is to be designed to meet the needs of current knowledge and humanity meet.
In 1840 he married his cousin Christiane scooter. Together they had nine children, three of whom died at a young age already.
1842 were his ideas a reality, than the medical and nursing home Illenau was opened in Achern. This post he held until his death in 1878.
Services
The great achievement of Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller was the consistent implementation of its vision for a modern asylum. The establishment of medical and nursing home Illenau in the rural idyll of Ortenau followed his idea of the " isolation " of the sick. But this was not the intention Rollers Banish the sick from society. His long experience had shown him that mental disorders are often associated with peculiarities of the usual environment in context. Chances of recovery he saw why the separation from familiar surroundings by placement in a " country of asylum ".
Throughout his life he defended his idea vehemently against the representatives of the " city asylum " professors of the medical faculties of the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg. This contrary opinion, and especially the fact that scooter had a large lobby in the state administration and the grand ducal court, had the consequence that was again set up the appropriate institutions only after his death at the universities and again researched systematically.
Writings
- The lunatic asylum in all their relationships shown, Karlsruhe 1831
- Psychiatric time questions from the field of asylum care in and out of the institutions and their relations with the state and society, Berlin: G. Reimer 1874