Franz Josef Kallmann

Franz Josef Kallmann ( born July 24, 1897 in Neumarkt / Silesia, † May 12, 1965 in New York City ), was born as the son of Marie (born Mordze / Modrey ) and Bruno Kallmann, a surgeon. Kallmann was a German - American psychiatrist.

Life

Kallmann was a soldier in World War 1. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau in 1919 and trained as a specialist in psychiatry by Karl Bonhoeffer and in neuropathology under Hans -Gerhard Creutzfeldt in Berlin continued. In 1928 he was department physician and prosector at the Berlin healing and nursing home Herzberge while at the Institute Berlin- Wuhlgarten. After his conversion to Christianity, he moved to Munich and worked at a psychiatric research institute under the direction of Ernst Rudin, which later received the name Max - Planck - Institute of Psychiatry. He made ​​an important contribution in basic work in psychiatric genetics through the use of twin research. At this Institute, he studied for years the familial occurrence of schizophrenia.

Kallmann worked from 1931 to 1935 closely with Rüdin together, in 1933 Commissioner of the Reich Ministry of the Interior for eugenics and racial policy was after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. Rudin was in the drafting of the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring " July 14, 1933, with the " biologically inferior genetic material " should be switched off by forced sterilization, significantly involved. 1934 Rüdin judge at Erbobergesundheitsgericht. In 1936, Kallmann emigrated because of his Jewish origin in the United States. Rüdin helped him to leave Germany and find a job in the U.S.. Riidin assistant, Theo Lang, sent him his research data to New York. After 1945 Kallmann Rüdin helped his denazification. Rudin had worked again with Lang. Initially he worked in the psychology department of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Later he founded the first Research Department in Psychiatric Genetics in the USA.

Kallmann published his findings in 1938 in New York.

In 1944, Kallmann described the hypogonadism with anosmia, which is named after him as Kallmann 's syndrome. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Publications

  • FJ Kallmann, A. Falek et al: The development aspects of children with two schizophrenic parents. In: Psychiatric research reports. Volume 19, December 1964, pp. 136-148, ISSN 0555-5434. PMID 14,232,650th
  • FJ Kallmann, Rainer JD: The genetic approach to schizophrenia: Clinical, demographic and family guidance problems. In: International psychiatry clinics. Volume 1, October 1964, pp. 799-820, ISSN 0020-8426. PMID 14,276,077th
  • Kallmann FJ, Roth B.: Genetic aspects of preadolescent schizophrenia. In: The American journal of psychiatry. Volume 112, Number 8, February 1956, pp. 599-606, ISSN 0002- 953X. PMID 13,292,546th
  • F. J. Kallmann: Reisner FJ. Twin studies on the Significance of genetic factors in tuberculosis. The American Review of Tuberculosis 47, p 549 (1943 )
  • Kallmann FJ: The genetic aspects of primary eunocchoidism (1944 )
  • Kallmann FJ: The genetic theory of schizophrenia. An analysis of 691 schizophrenic twin index families. (1946 ) In: The American journal of psychiatry. Volume 151, number 6 Suppl, June 1994, pp. 188-198, ISSN 0002- 953X. PMID 8,192,198th
  • Kallmann FJ: Modern concepts of genetics in relation to mental health and abnormal personality development. Psychiatric Quarterly 21, 4, 535-553 (1947 ) doi: 10.1007/BF01654317
  • F. J. Kallmann: The genetics of psychoses; on analysis of 1,232 twin index families. American Journal of Human Genetics 4, ss. 385-390 (1950)
  • Kallmann FJ: Heredity in Health and Mental Disorder (1953 )
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