Rudolf Leubuscher

Rudolf Leubuscher ( born December 12, 1822 in Breslau, † October 23, 1861 in Berlin) was a German physician, pathologist, psychologist and psychiatrist.

Life

His father was a merchant Leubuscher August. Leubuscher visited in Wrocław, the Mary Magdalene Grammar School, leaving in 1840 - left with the Abitur - along with the future botanist Ferdinand Cohn. He then began the study of medicine in Berlin. One of his teachers was Moritz Heinrich Romberg, founder of neurology. In 1844 received his doctorate Leubuscher and 1845, he completed the state exam. As a junior doctor he worked under Heinrich Philipp August Damerow to the newly established provincial mental hospital in Halle ( Saale). In 1847 he returned to Berlin. He worked at the Charité and worked as a manager of a cholera hospital. He also dedicated himself, together with his student friend Rudolf Virchow and with Benno Reinhardt of pathological anatomy. In 1848 at Leubuscher to the Christian faith. Not yet 40 years old, he died in 1861 from a liver disease.

Services

In October 1848, Leubuscher Habilitation at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin. Themes of his first lectures were psychic epidemics and empirical psychology. As Virchow was also Leubuscher in the failed revolution of March 1848 on the side of the left-wing liberals. They strove together with others on a Medizinalreform. With the of them jointly issued weekly magazine The medicinische reform fought Virchow and Leubuscher from July 1848 for one year for their ideals, especially for the unit status of physicians. In Berlin, the so-called workhouse was also home to the mentally ill in the city. Here Leubuscher in 1850 senior physician in the year. His fight for better conditions at this institution did not find the desired success. And so he took over in 1855 the post of director of the medical clinic in Jena. He received the title of Grand Duke of Saxon court and Medizinalrats. Nevertheless Leubuscher again took leave of Jena and returned to Berlin. He practiced as a physician, was an associate professor, taught at the university and became a member of the Commission for the medical state examination.

Leubuscher was not only an outstanding scientist, he was also a good teacher and elocutionist. The work De la Folie by French psychiatrist Louis Juste Calmeil translated and he edited under the title The madness in the last four centuries (Hall: Schwetschke, 1848). Leubuscher counted on in his article aboulia 1847 numerous disorders of the will. Under aboulia he understood as well as Johann Christian August Heinroth lack of will.

Publications

  • R. Leubuscher: About aboulia. In: Zeitschrift. for Psychiat. 4, 1847, pp. 562-578
  • R. Virchow and R. Leubuscher, The medicinische reform. Weekly, published on 10 July 1848 to 29 June 1849, Berlin 1848-1849
  • R. Leubuscher: About werewolves and animal transformations in the Middle Ages. A Contribution to the History of Psychology, Berlin 1850
  • R. Leubuscher: On the Origin of illusion. A contribution to anthropology, Berlin 1852
  • Leubuscher R. (ed.): Benno Reinhardt 's pathological- anatomical investigations, Berlin 1852
  • Leubuscher R.: The pathology and treatment of brain diseases, Berlin 1854
  • R. Leubuscher: The diseases of the nervous system, Leipzig 1860
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