Gottlieb Burckhardt
Psychiatrist, Deceased Person
1836 – 1907
Who was Gottlieb Burckhardt?
Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt was a Swiss psychiatrist and the medical director of small mental hospital in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. He is commonly regarded as having performed the first modern psychosurgical operation. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he trained as doctor at the Universities of Basel, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his medical doctorate in 1860. In the same year he took up a teaching post in the University of Basel and established a private practice in his hometown. He married in 1863 but the following year he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and gave up his practice and relocated to a region south of the Pyrennes in search of a cure. By 1866 he had made a full recovery and returned to Basel with the intention of devoting himself to the study of nervous diseases and their treatment. In 1875 he attained a post at the Waldau University Psychiatric Clinic in Bern and from 1876 he lectured on mental diseases at the University of Bern. Beginning in this period, he published widely on his psychiatric and neurological research findings in the medical press developing the thesis that mental illnesses had their origins in specific regions of the brain.
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- Born
- Dec 24, 1836
Basel - Also known as
- Dr. Gottlieb Burckhardt
- Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt-Heusler
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Basel
- Lived in
- Basel
- Died
- Feb 6, 1907
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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