Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum

Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum ( born December 28, 1828 in Driesen, † April 15, 1899 in Görlitz ) was a German psychiatrist.

Kahlbaum operational studies of medicine, science and mathematics at the Universities of Leipzig, Wurzburg, Konigsberg and Berlin.

In 1854 he was awarded his doctorate on the subject of De avium tractus alimentarii anatomia et histologia nonnulla. The licensed physician since 1854 received in 1856 a position as second doctor of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, in the East Prussian Allenberg, Circle Wehlau. After his habilitation in psychiatry, he taught at Königsberg.

Kahlbaum introduced in 1863 to a new classification of psychiatric disorders, in which he first defined the hebephrenia and catatonia as a disease.

1866 moved Kahlbaum to Görlitz in 1855 by Dr. Hermann Andreas Reimer ( 1825-1906 ) founded Nursing Home for Epileptics. This furnished one bedroom on the Upper Miihlberg private hospital was in its time a unique institution in Germany. In 1867 he took over the leadership of the House of Reimer, he led an international reputation.

After Kahlbaum Dr. Kahl - tree avenue and the Dr.- Karl- Ludwig Kahlbaum Centre for Geriatric Psychiatry are named in Görlitz.