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Johann Gottfried Langermann (8 August 1768 – 6 September 1832) was a German
(Digital full text edition in Wikisource.) Initially he studied law in Leipzig, afterwards transferring to the University of Jena, where his focus turned to medicine. At Jena he had as instructors Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836) and philosopher
German Romanticism and Its Institutions by Theodore Ziolkowski
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History of psychiatry and medical psychology by Edwin R. Wallace and John Gach
on Google Books German psychiatrists 1768 births 1832 deaths 18th-century German physicians Physicians from Saxony People from Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge {{Germany-psychiatrist-stub
Johann Gottfried Langermann (8 August 1768 – 6 September 1832) 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 ...
and administrator born in Maxen, near Dresden.
(Digitale Volltext-Ausgabe in Wikisource.)
(Digital full text edition in Wikisource.) Initially he studied law in Leipzig, afterwards transferring to the University of Jena, where his focus turned to medicine. At Jena he had as instructors Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836) and philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kan ...
(1762–1814). In 1797 he obtained his medical doctorate with a dissertation on the diagnosis and treatment of melancholia. He worked for a period of time as a physician in a madhouse in Torgau, and from 1805 to 1810 was director of a psychiatric institute at Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...
. Later in his career he was appointed director of Prussian Health Services, where he wielded influence on the overall development of Prussian mental hospitals.
During his tenure at Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...
he made efforts at transforming a former penitentiary-madhouse into a place of treatment for the mentally ill, having limited success. As a psychiatrist he equated mental illness with uncontrolled passions, and defined treatment as establishing control of reason over passions by educational means.
References
German Romanticism and Its Institutions by Theodore Ziolkowski
on Google Books
History of psychiatry and medical psychology by Edwin R. Wallace and John Gach
on Google Books German psychiatrists 1768 births 1832 deaths 18th-century German physicians Physicians from Saxony People from Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge {{Germany-psychiatrist-stub