Karl Fürstner

Carl Ludwig Fuerstner (also Karl Fuerstner; born June 7, 1848 in Strasburg, Uckermark, † April 25, 1906 in Strasbourg ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. According to him pseudospastische paresis tremor was called " Fürstnersche disease".

Life and work

Fuerstner visited the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin and studied, himself the son of a physician, 1866-1870 medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin. During his last semester he was going famulus by Rudolf Virchow. He participated as a field medical assistant part in the Franco-German War of 1870 /71. After his return, he received his doctorate in 1871 with the work to dispute about the othematoma in Berlin and in 1872 assistant at the Institute of Pathology of the University of Greifswald. In 1873 he returned to Berlin and took up a position as senior physician at the asylum department of the Charité Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal on. In 1877, he joined as an assistant doctor at the asylum Stephansfeld in Alsace. 1878 appointed him to the University of Heidelberg as Full Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the newly built Grand Ducal Baden University Hospital Heidelberg astray (now Psychiatric University Hospital Heidelberg).

Alfred Hoche, a former student prince of Heidelberg days, the humble situation in the Heidelberg clinic described in retrospect:

" The laboratory was a small, einfenstriges room; the auditorium was the Casino of the sick, in which the listener sat around a pool around. The clinic had 2 in the last 3 time wizard. There was no degree in psychiatry, so that not all students attended the psychiatric clinic, a fact which was offset by Prince former personal magnetism; after all, the mood of our former bosses depended greatly on the frequency of his lectures from, and the then senior physician sat in jest 50 pennies for each listener from which appeared on the expected number of agents out. "

1890 followed Fuerstner a reputation at the Kaiser-Wilhelms -University of Strasbourg. Fuerstner served on the board of the German Association for Psychiatry and was co-editor of the Archives of Psychiatry, where most of his work published. He died somewhat surprising about the consequences and complications of gangrene of the foot as a result of an undiagnosed severe diabetes.

Fuerstner is one of the representatives of the so-called " brain psychiatry ". Mental illness were to him always as part of the brain pathology. Therefore, he was interested primarily diseases in which relationships could be identified with diseases of other central organs. So he worked on Pachymeningitis haemorrhagica gliosis of the cerebral cortex, muscle changes in psychosis and cave formations in the brain and spinal cord, particularly in relation to the pathological anatomy of progressive paralysis.

Since 1896 he was a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg.

Writings

• To dispute about the othematoma. In: Archives of Psychiatry 3 (1873 ), pp. 353ff.
• About Pregnancy and Puerperalpsychosen. In: Archives of Psychiatry 5 (1875 ), pp. 505ff.
• About albuminuria in alcoholics. In: Archives of Psychiatry 6 (1876 ), pp. 755 and Archives of Psychiatry 7 (1877 ), pp. 643ff.
• About astray clinics at the hand of a report on the operation of the university asylum clinic at Heidelberg during the years 1878 - 1883 Heidelberg. Bangel & Schmitt, 1885.
• About gliosis of the cerebral cortex. In: Archives of Psychiatry 15 (1884 ), pp. 835ff and Archives of Psychiatry 16 (1885 ), pp. 851ff.
• About the behavior of the body weight in psychosis. In: German Arch. f klin. Med 1890.
• For pathology and pathological anatomy of progressive paralysis in particular on the changes of the spinal cord and peripheral nerves. In: Archives of Psychiatry 14 (1892 ), pp. 83ff.
• For the pathology of progressive paralysis. In: Monatsschr. f Psych and neurologists. 12 (1902 ).