Rudolf Gottfried Arndt (31 March 1835 – 29 January 1900) was a German

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

from Bialken, district of Marienwerder.

Biography

Arndt studied in

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

and Halle. As a student, his instructors included

Felix von Niemeyer Felix von Niemeyer (31 December 1820 – 14 March 1871) was a German internist born in Magdeburg. He was the grandson of theologian August Hermann Niemeyer (1754–1828). Biography He studied medicine at the University of Halle and in 1844 st ...

(1820–1871), Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819–1895), and Heinrich Philipp August Damerow (1798–1866). He was conferred

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on 20 February 1860. From 1861 he maintained a private practice, and also participated in the

Second Schleswig War The Second Schleswig War ( da, Krigen i 1864; german: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. T ...

(1864),

Austro-Prussian War The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as ("German War"), (; "German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 186 ...

(1866) and Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In 1867 he obtained his habilitation, subsequently serving as director of the ''Irren-Heil- und Pflege-Anstalt'' in

. In 1873 he became an associate professor of psychiatry at Greifswald. He died of

angina pectoris Angina, also known as angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium). It is most commonly a symptom of coronary artery disease. Angina is typically the result of obstru ...

. He is known today for the " Arndt-Schulz rule", a pharmacologic principle of

homeopathy Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a dis ...

that is named in conjunction with German

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Hugo Schulz Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz (August 6, 1853 – July 13, 1932) was a German pharmacologist from Wesel, Rhenish Prussia. He studied medicine in the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, where he did scientific work in the physiological institute ...

(1853-1932). He is also remembered for his investigations of

neurasthenia Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον ''neuron'' "nerve" and ἀσθενής ''asthenés'' "weak") is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves and became a major diagnosis in North A ...

Awards and decorations

* Order of the Crown, 4th class with Swords (Prussia, 1866) *

Iron Cross The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia est ...

of 1870, 2nd class on white-black band (Prussia, 1871) * Knight's Cross, First Class of the

Order of the Zähringer Lion The Order of the Zähringer Lion was instituted on 26 December 1812 by Karl, Grand Duke of Baden , house = Zähringen , father = Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden , mother = Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt ...

(Baden)

Selected writings

* ''Aus einem apoplectischen Gehirn'', 1878 - On the

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brain. * ''Die Neurasthenie (Nervenschwäche), ihr Wesen, ihre Bedeutung und Behandlung'', 1885 -

Neurasthenia Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον ''neuron'' "nerve" and ἀσθενής ''asthenés'' "weak") is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves and became a major diagnosis in North A ...

(nerve weakness), its nature, its meaning and treatment. * ''Der Verlauf der Psychosen'', 1887 (with August Dohm) - The course of

psychosis Psychosis is a condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations, among other features. Additional symptoms are incoherent speech and behavior ...

. * ''Was sind Geisteskrankheiten?'', 1897 - What is

mental illness A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitti ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arndt, Rudolf 1835 births 1900 deaths People from Kwidzyn County People from the Province of Prussia German psychiatrists German military doctors Prussian people of the Austro-Prussian War German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War University of Greifswald alumni University of Greifswald faculty Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni Recipients of the Iron Cross (1870), 2nd class Deaths from angina pectoris

Biography

Awards and decorations

Selected writings

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