Tag: 1850-1899

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey – March 4, 1963, ibid.), often abbreviated to WCW, was an American physician and poet. Williams' life quickly became entirely centered – apart from his travels in Europe – in his hometown of Rutherford, New Jersey, where he practiced medicine (M.D.) since 1910. In addition to his writing, Williams was a long-time physician, practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, Read more [...]
Peter robert Berry

Peter robert Berry

Peter Robert Berry (* September 11, 1864 in St. Moritz; † November 14, 1942 in St. Moritz) was a physician and painter from St. Moritz in the canton of Graubünden. Peter Robert Berry was born the eldest son of the Chur physician Peter Berry I and his wife Cecilia Berry-Stoppani. Peter Berry came to St. Moritz on the advice of his brother-in-law, the hotelier Johannes Badrutt, and was one of the first spa physicians to work in the "New Kurhaus," which opened in 1864. Berry attended the Read more [...]
Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS (16 April 1890 – 23 January 1975) was an English surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India. In 1924 he was awarded an Olympic Gold Medal by Pierre de Coubertin for his achievements in mountaineering (Alpinism). Somervell was born in Kendal, Westmorland, Read more [...]
Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 in Mansfeld near Putlitz, Prignitz; July 7, 1956 in Berlin) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He grew up as the son of a theologian in a rectory. After abandoning his theology studies, he successfully completed his medical studies. In 1912, his first volume of poetry, Morgue and Other Poems, was published. It caused a scandal due to its drastic choice of themes and casual expression and immediately made the author known as a representative of the newly emerging Read more [...]
Giuseppe Moscati

Giuseppe Moscati

Saint Giuseppe Moscati, also known as Joseph Moscati (July 25, 1880 in Benevento near Avellino; April 12, 1927 in Naples) was an Italian physician, scientist, and university professor. He was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1975 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987. The Catholic Church celebrates his feast day on April 12, while the Archdioceses of Naples and Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni celebrate it separately on November 16. Moscati was one of the first physicians to use insulin to treat diabetes. Joseph Read more [...]
Axel Munthe

Axel Munthe

Axel Martin Fredrik "Puck" Munthe [ˌakːsəl ˈmɵnːtə] (October 31, 1857 in Oskarshamn – February 11, 1949 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physician and author. Beruf und Leben https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wGu6dfpLE Axel Munthe was born in 1857, the son of a pharmacist. He studied medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris. In 1880 he began practicing medicine in Paris and Rome. Over the years he worked in Naples, London and Stockholm. During his student years in Paris Read more [...]
Hans Prinzhorn

Hans Prinzhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fxo1YNf7E&pp=ygUOaGFucyBwcmluemhvcm4%3D Hans Prinzhorn (6 June 1886 – 14 June 1933) was a German psychiatrist and art historian. Hans Prinzhorn als Abiturient (1904) Born in Hemer, Westphalia, he studied art history and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Munich, then receiving his doctorate under Theodor Lipps with the dissertation "Gottfried Semper's basic aesthetic views" in 1908. Read more [...]
Carl Wickland

Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland (born Carl August Wicklund, 14 February 1861 – 13 November 1945)[1] was a 20th-century Swedish-American psychiatrist and psychical researcher. Wickland turned away from conventional medical psychology and toward the belief that psychiatric illnesses were the result of influence by spirits of the dead. Wickland came to believe that a large number of his patients had become possessed by what he called "obsessing spirits", Read more [...]
Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов[note 1], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860[note 2] – 15 July 1904[note 3]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.[4][5] Along with Henrik Read more [...]
Julius Levin

Julius Levin

Julius Levin (* 21. Januar 1862 in Elbing; † 29. Januar 1935 in Brüssel) was a German MD, author and violin maker. He also wrote many books as author. Moderne Modemaler, Berlin 1887 Die Hygiene und Diätetik des Wochenbettes, Berlin 1892 Was tut der deutschen Kunst not?, Berlin 1912 Das Lächeln des Herrn von Golubice-Golubicki, Berlin 1915 Zweie und der Liebe Gott, Berlin 1919 Wehrmann Ismer, Berlin 1920 Die singende Dame, Read more [...]