Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer (11 July 1822 – 9 August 1877) was a German physician and

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born in Wiesbaden. He studied medicine in Marburg, Bonn and Berlin. At the University of Bonn he studied under

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(1789–1863), and after receiving his doctorate from the University of Berlin, he was an assistant to psychiatrist

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(1777–1858) at the asylum in Siegburg. As a young man, Erlenmeyer was influenced by Jacobi's

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approach to psychiatry, and felt that there needed to be a close unity of psychiatry and neurology. In 1848 he opened a private asylum in Bendorf bei Koblenz that was to become known as ''Asyl für Gehirn- und Nervenkranke''. During the ensuing years the facility expanded, eventually having a department of neurology (1866) and an "agricultural colony" called ''Albrechtshöhe'' (1867). In 1854 Erlenmeyer became a co-founder of the ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und gerichtliche Psychologie'' (German Society for Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology). His son, psychiatrist

Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer (9 March 1849 – 7 July 1926) was a German physician and psychiatrist known for his contributions to the fields of neurology and psychiatry. Early life and education Erlenmeyer was born in Bendorf bei Koblenz ...

(1849–1926) is remembered for his research of morphine addiction.
On the treatment of the morphine habit By Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer

Published works

* ''Die Gehirnatrophie der Erwachsenen'' (Brain atrophy in adults) 1852 * ''Wie sind Seelenstörungen in ihrem Beginne zu behandeln?'' (How psychic disturbances should be treated in their beginning). 1860; Later translated into several languages. * ''Die subcutanen Injectionen der Arzneimittel'' (

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s) 1866 * ''Die Embolie der Hirnarierien'' ( Embolism of the cerebral arteries) 1867 * ''Die luetischen Psychosen'' (Syphilitic psychoses) 1876.

References

Pagel: Biographical Encyclopedia of outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century.

Deutsche Biographie 1822 births 1877 deaths People from Wiesbaden People from the Duchy of Nassau German psychiatrists University of Bonn alumni {{Germany-med-bio-stub