Otto Binswanger
Otto Ludwig Binswanger ( born October 14, 1852 in Scherzingen, Munsterlingen, Switzerland, † July 15, 1929 in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist.
Life
Binswanger originally came from a Bavarian family, emerged from the several well-known psychiatrist, see disambiguation Binswanger. He was the son of Ludwig Binswanger Elder, the founder of the Sanatorium Bellevue in the Swiss town of Kreuzlingen and the uncle of the founder of Daseinsanalysis Ludwig Binswanger.
He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Zurich. In Heidelberg he joined the Corps Suevia Heidelberg, in Zurich he was Tigurini. After receiving his doctorate in 1877, he worked for nine months at his father Ludwig Binswanger, then as an assistant in Vienna under Theodor Meynert and in Göttingen at the psychiatric hospital under Louis Meyer. He then worked at the Pathological Institute in Wroclaw, until he was appointed to the beginning of 1880 to the psychiatric and mental hospital of the Charité in Berlin as a senior physician under Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, where he habilitated. After getting a German license due to its extremely scientific competence by decree, he got - barely 30 years old - in 1882 a call to Jena as director of the State Hospital and the position of Associate Professor of Psychiatry University Hospital. In 1891 he was appointed full professor of psychiatry and head of the Psychiatric University Hospital until his retirement in 1919. Binswanger was elected in April 1911 Vice-Rector of the University of Jena and received the title of Medizinalrates and finally the Secret Medizinalrates. One of his famous patient was Friedrich Nietzsche, the other ( later ) writer Hans Fallada and Johannes R. Becher.
Binswanger has created an international reputation as a clinician; at his suggestion goes back the development of an independent Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In Jena, he worked in an advisory capacity on Trüperschen Children and Youth sanatorium on the Sophienhoehe. In addition to his extensive career, he worked during the 1st World War in the field hospital and as an expert and consultant in the Thuringian Army Corps. Among his more than 100 publications are his most significant work on epilepsy, neurasthenia and published together with Ernst Siemerling textbook of psychiatry as well as his work on hysteria.
His name found by Binswanger's disease described by him in clinical nomenclature. In Binswanger disease or Binswanger's dementia is a subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (SAE ), a form of dementia, is caused when the brain damage caused by long-standing arterial hypertension and arteriosclerosis.
Binswanger also engaged in non-medical areas. He was, among other things, from 1918 Member of the Supervisory Board of the Saxon -Thuringian Portland Cement Factory Prüssing & Co. KG aA in Göschwitz / Saale. This mandate he held until his death.
Binswanger was married to Emilie Baedeker ( 1859-1941 ), the daughter of the Bremen merchant and shipowner Reinhard Wilhelm Baedeker and was father of Hans Constantin Paulssen and brother of Heinrich Averbeck.