Ernst Siemerling

Ernst Siemerling ( born September 9, 1857 in Müssow; † January 6, 1931 in Berlin) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He has published work on neuropathology. After he as a professor and head of the mental hospital in Tübingen was for eight years, he held from 1901 to the same for 25 years working at the University of Kiel.

Early years

Siemerling studied from 1877, except for an interruption during which he studied for a semester in Leipzig, to promotion in 1882 at the University of Marburg. During his studies he worked in the Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, his PhD thesis entitled Contributions to the embryology of the excretory organs of the bird he also wrote about the anatomy. After he had already done the first part of his military service during the study, followed by the second directly after his studies at the Marburg garrison. End of 1882, he then resigned from the anatomical institute and began at a psychiatry in Nietleben at Halle, which was headed by Eduard Hitzig, to work as a volunteer doctor.

Work

Activity in the Charité

In 1884 Siemerling went as assistant physician to Mental Hospital Charité in Berlin, where he worked under Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal. In Berlin he also met Paula von Richthofen (born 1873) know, a granddaughter of Paul Mendelssohn- Bartholdy and distant relatives Westphal, whom he married in 1893. The couple had two daughters.

At the Charité he worked with, among others, Karl Moeli and Hermann Oppenheim. Under the leadership of Westphal Siemerling began in Berlin with brain anatomical studies. He wrote several works on various diseases of the nervous system, sometimes with Oppenheim together. In 1888 Siemerling habilitated together with Oppenheim. As Westphal fell ill shortly thereafter, he was supported by Siemerling in running the clinic. After the death of Carl Westphal Siemerling was also appointed acting head of the clinic. After the arrival of Friedrich Jolly, the latter took the lead. Siemerling again worked as assistant medical director of psychiatry until he held a chair at the University of Tübingen in 1893.

Activity in Tübingen

Siemerling became director of the newly founded Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and also took over the chair of the university. At first, the establishment of the newly formed Institute was his first task. Subsequently, he was mainly involved in the pathological- anatomical examination of nervous diseases. He also included the description of diseases and forensic psychiatric problems to his main area of ​​responsibility. After Siemerling 1901 went to Kiel, where he had also set up a newly established clinic, Robert Wollenberg followed him in Tübingen as the director of the clinic.

Activity in Kiel

During his tenure at the University of Kiel, both as a professor and as head of the Psychiatric and Mental Hospital, he introduced a system he had met in Berlin and had already established in Tübingen. New patients were admitted to the hospital and there simply makes the diagnosis made ​​and acute treatments. Longer-term cases were admitted to the hospital. The university hospital had therefore always to work with new cases and thus secured the teaching and research university. The training of nurses was Siemerling heart. In 1910 he founded his own related to psychiatry nursing school where he could train skilled professionals specifically. He also continued to publish work on neuropathology during his time in Kiel. Siemerling held the chair and the head of the clinic until his retirement in 1926, he was succeeded by George Stertz. Together with his family he moved to his retirement to Berlin, where he worked literary. He was, among other things, co-editor of the Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases.

Publications

  • Anatomical studies of the human spinal roots. Berlin, 1887.
  • For syphilis of the central nervous system.
  • About the chronic progressive paralysis of eye muscles. Berlin, 1891.
  • Contributions to forensic psychiatry. Transient disturbances of consciousness of epileptics.
  • Sex crimes and mental disorder.
  • For the pathological anatomy of the spinal polio.
  • Curing and technology of large brain sections.
  • Casuistic contribution to the forensic evaluation of traumatic epilepsy with consecutiver mental disorder. Tübingen, 1895.
  • Report on the effectiveness of the Psychiatric University Hospital of Tubingen in the period from November 1, 1893 to 1st Jan. 1901. Tübingen, 1901.
  • Psychiatry through the ages. Kiel, 1904.
  • In memory of Friedrich Jolly. Berlin, 1904.
  • About nervous and mental disorders of youth. Berlin, 1909.
  • Nervous and mental disorders during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Special edition of Albert Siegmund Gustav Döderlein 's (1860-1941) Handbook of Obstetrics, volume 3, Munich, 1916.
  • About sleep and insomnia. Berlin, 1923.
  • Refresher practical neurology. Leipzig, 1927.
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