Ewald Hecker

Ewald Hecker ( born October 20, 1843 in Halle ( Saale), † January 11, 1909 in Wiesbaden ) was a German psychiatrist and student of Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum.

Life

Hecker studied from 1861 to 1866 architecture first and then medicine. In 1866 he received his doctorate in Königsberg on tuberculosis and subsequently worked in Allenberg / East Prussia, where he met his future friend and mentor Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum. In Kahlbaum private psychiatric clinic in Görlitz in Saxony today Hecker worked from 1867 to 1876; from this period the work of Hecker and Kahlbaum's catatonia and to hebephrenia. 1871 married Hecker; from the marriage two children come (a son and a daughter ). From 1876 to 1881 Hecker worked in Plagwitz / Silesia, where he was head of its medicinal and health care institution and reorganized. Then he moved to Johannesberg to make the local water sanatorium to a mental hospital; in 1891 he treated patients at his home in Wiesbaden. After 1905, Hecker's health deteriorated; He suffered a series of strokes and died 1909 at the age of 65 years in Wiesbaden.

His son is the sculptor, university lecturer, comedian and film director Waldemar Hecker.

Services

Best known Hecker is for the results of cooperation with Kahlbaum, together, he developed the concepts of dementia and dementia catatonica hebephrenica with in the 1870s.

Works

• E. Hecker: The hebephrenia. A contribution to clinical psychiatry. In: Arch Pathol. Anat Physiol. Clin Med Volume 52, 1871, pp. 394-429