Jules Angst (born 11 December 1926) is a Swiss academic who is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at
Zurich University in
Zurich, Switzerland, and Honorary Doctor of
Heidelberg University
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in
Heidelberg
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, Germany.
Early life
Angst was born in
Zurich, where he also grew up. He completed his medical and psychiatric training in
Zurich under his mentor, Professor Manfred
Bleuler (son and student of
Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (; ; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including " schizophrenia", "schizoid" ...
). From 1969 to 1994, Jules Angst was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the
University of Zurich
The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...
Medical School and Head of the Research Department of Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital (the
Burghölzli
The ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' (Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich) is a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. As a research hospital, it is associated with the University of Zürich. It is also called Burghölzli, after ...
).
Jules Angst has continued uninterrupted his epidemiological and clinical research at the University (Universitatsklinik) since leaving his Chair. He has remained the President of the European Bipolar Forum since 2003.
His scientific contributions include 15 books (as author and/or editor), 154 book chapters, and 539 journal articles.
Awards
Jules Angst has received many awards in recognition of his work, including the Anna Monika Awards
(1967/1969), Paul Martini Prize for Methodology in Medicine (1969), Otto Naegeli Prize (1983), Eric Stromgren Medal (1987), the Emil Kraepelin Medal of the Max Planck Institute,
Munich
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(1992), the Jean Delay Prize of the World Psychiatric Association (2017), and the Wilhelm Griesinger Medal of the DGPPN (German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (2018).
Other awards include the Selo Prize NARSAD/Depression Research, USA (1994), Mogens Schou Award for Research in Bipolar Disorder, USA (2001), Burgholzli Award for
Social Psychiatry (2001), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (2002), Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Bipolar Forum (2006), the Wagner-Jauregg Medal (2007), ECNP Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychopharmacology (2012), Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2013), and the Joseph Zubin Award of the American Psychopathological Association (2015).
Further reading
*Angst J (2009) "From psychoanalysis to epidemiology: autobiographical notes" ''Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica'' 119:87–97
*Fink M (2009) Editorial: "Remembering the lost neuroscience of pharmaco-EEG" ''Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica'' 1–13
References
External links
Laudatio für Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. h.c. Jules Angst
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1926 births
Living people
Physicians from Zürich
Swiss psychiatrists
University of Zurich alumni
University of Zurich faculty
Presidents of the European Psychiatric Association