Oswald Berkhan

Oswald Berkhan ( born March 19, 1834 in Blankenburg, † February 15, 1917 in Braunschweig ) was a German physician.

Life

Berkhan visited the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick and studied at Göttingen University in Prague, Vienna and at the University of Würzburg medicine. There he received his doctorate in 1856. During his studies he had the medical Carl Friedrich von Marcus on, who founded the clinical psychiatry in Würzburg. After passing the state exam, he worked in a mental hospital before he was in the 1860 GP Alexius nursing home, an asylum in Braunschweig. This facility was relocated in 1865 after King Lutter and thus formed the basis for the subsequent state institutes. In 1861 he was admitted as a general practitioner. He was one of the founders of the morons Institution to Erkerode (later the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode ). It was founded by him, Pastor Gustav dandy from Erkerode and the Brunswick honorary citizen Louise Löbbecke 1868 in Erkerode. The institution should be a refuge for sick and disabled people. By 1896, he worked as a consulting physician. Berkhan introduced in 1883 for the first time in public schools speech therapy courses for stuttering and looked after children who suffered from epileptic seizures. Together with Louise Löbbeke he promoted the construction of an educational establishment ( Luisenstift ), which was opened in 1908.

In addition, he was involved with the teacher Heinrich Kiel Horn as a reformer of special education. Together they founded in 1881 in Braunschweig a class for mentally disabled children. He was the first citizen in the Duchy of Braunschweig the title Secret Health Board.

After Berkhan 1967, a special school " Oswald- Berkhan school" were named with a focus on spiritual development and the adjacent street in Braunschweig.

Publications (selection)

  • Shown for doctors and teachers, Berlin: About disorders of language and the written language Hirschwald, 1889
  • About the innate and early acquired idiocy, Braunschweig: F. Vieweg & Sohn, 1899, 2nd edition 1904
  • The microcephalous idiots. In: Journal of Psychiatry. 37 (1871 ).
  • The idiots of the City of Brunswick. In: General Journal of Psychiatry and psycho- forensic medicine. 37 (1880 ).
  • About the stuttering, its relationship to poverty and its treatment. In: Archives of Psychiatry. 14 (1883 ).
  • Peculiarity with sleep related seizures. In: German Journal of Neurology. In 1892.
  • Like the Idiot Asylum New Erkerode arose. In: Brunswick State newspaper and Tageblatt. März 1898.
  • A feeble-minded child with an ear tip in the sense of Darwin. In: Journal for the study and treatment of juvenile imbecility. In 1907.
  • Two cases of scaphocephaly. In: Archives of Anthropology. N.F. 6.1 (1907).
  • Two cases of Trigonokephalie. In: Archives of Anthropology. N.F. 7.4 (1909).
  • The prodigy Christian Heinrich Heineken. In: Journal of Child Research. 110 (1910).
  • Otto Pöhler, the early read Braunschweiger child. In: Journal of Child Research. 15 (1910).
  • About talented morons. In: Journal for the study and treatment of juvenile imbecility. , 1911.
  • About uniform head mass in imbeciles and uniform reproduction of head shapes moron. In: Journal for the study and treatment of juvenile imbecility. In 1912.
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