Charles Frederick Menninger (11 July 1862 – 28 November 1953) was a physician who co-founded the

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with his sons,

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and

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Biography

Charles Menninger was born in

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on July 11, 1862. He was the sixth of August Valentine and Katarina (née Schmitberger) Menninger's eight children and their youngest son. Menninger obtained a bachelor's degree from Central

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in 1882 and after graduating he accepted a teaching position at

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. Menninger married Florence Vesta Knisley, on January 15, 1885 and together they had three children:

, Anna, and

. Florence died on February 9, 1945, and he married Pearl Boam on June 15, 1948. He died on November 28, 1953. Menninger completed his medical training at Chicago's

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in 1889 and moved to

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where a small medical school, affiliated with

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, was operated by members of the local medical community. He was taken on as a junior partner by Henry Roby, who influenced his pursuit of additional medical training focused on internal medicine and metabolic issues. Menninger graduated from the Kansas Medical College in 1906 and was elected to the faculty of the medical college. In 1919, upon completion of his son Karl's medical training at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the two formed a professional partnership and opened the Menninger Clinic. His other son William C. Menninger joined them in 1925 and the facility was renamed the Menninger Sanitarium. It eventually evolved into the

, a national institution for the study and care of people suffering from mental illnesses.

Legacy

The Charles Frederick Menninger Award is given by the American Psychoanalytic Association for original research in psycho-analysis.http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=IJP.038.0436E

References

External links

*Search on Charles Frederick Menninger i
Menninger Foundation Archives
from Kansas State

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1862 births 1953 deaths American psychiatrists People from Tell City, Indiana Physicians from Kansas {{US-physician-stub