Holger Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 242841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holger Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0810-3480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Back to Basics: Ernst Burchard’s Lexikon Des Gesamten Sexuallebens (Encyclopedia of the Entire Sexual Life)
Objectives Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) worked as a neurologist and sexologist in early 20th century Berlin. He was a respected sexologist and court expert who researched extensively on transvestitism and homosexuality. Due to his early death, however, he soon fell into oblivion. Only recently has his scientific work been reviewed and, among other things, his Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens (Encyclopedia of the Entire Sexual Life) has been identi…
Die Beiträge des Nervenarztes Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) zur Sexualforschung im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Einleitung Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) wirkte als Nervenarzt und Sexualwissenschaftler zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine intensive Forschung unter anderem zur Homosexualität sowie seine Gutachtertätigkeit mit Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) sind durch diverse Publikationen belegt. Forschungsziele Bisher wurden die Arbeiten Burchards in der Medizingeschichte kaum beachtet. Die vorliegende Studie möchte erstmals seine sexologischen Beiträge system…
The views of Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–68) on suicidality or ‘self-murder’
To date, little attention has been paid to the fact that a whole section in Wilhelm Griesinger’s textbook is devoted to suicidality. Griesinger perceived suicide as a distinct entity. In his opinion, only one-third of all suicides were committed by people suffering from mental disorders; heredity and brain anomalies could also be involved. Therapeutically, Griesinger recommended removing all potential means for suicide and admitting people at ris…
Some comparative psychiatric studies in the 19th century
This article analyses 19th-century publications which dealt with the social and cultural aspects of psychiatric disorders in different parts of the world. Systematic reviews were conducted of three German medical journals, one Russian medical journal, and a relevant monograph. All these archives were published in the 19th century. Our work highlights the fact that long before Kraepelin, several, mostly forgotten, publications had already discusse…
The creator of the term ‘anancasm’ was Hungarian: Guyla Donáth (1849–1944)
There is considerable confusion in the field of research on the history of psychiatry as to who created the term anancasm. This article seeks to clarify that the term was coined by the Hungarian psychiatrist Gyula Donáth, who was born in Baja, on the Danube, and worked mainly in Budapest. Donáth’s publications reveal that his predominant sphere of interest and research was neurology and psychiatry. A number of his publications deal with epilepsy …
Richard Arwed Pfeifer – a pioneer of ‘medical pedagogy’ and an opponent of Paul Schröder
Richard Arwed Pfeifer (1877–1957) was one of the initiators and foster fathers of the renowned child-psychiatric and special needs education workgroup at Leipzig University under Paul Schröder (1873–1941) in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper is an account of their dispute concerning the interrelations between child and adolescent psychiatry and special needs education, as well as their disagreement about whether adolescent psychopaths should be adm…
Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773–1843): The First Professor of Psychiatry as a Psychotherapist
News and Notes: The tenth anniversary of the Archives for the History of Psychiatry in Leipzig
International audience
Karl Kleist and his refusal of an appointment at Leipzig in 1923
Further to the study by Neumärker and Bartsch (2003) of Karl Kleist (1879-1960), this short contribution based on archive material, cited for the first time, looks into Kleist’s motives for refusing an appointment as Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Leipzig University. This study comes to the conclusion that Kleist thought seriously of moving to Leipzig. However, the Saxony Ministry of People’s Education refused to make a definite financi…
The Sin in the Aetiological Concept of Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843): Part 1: Between Theology and Psychiatry. Heinroth’s Concepts of ‘Whole Being’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Reason’ and ‘Disturbance…
Throughout his work Johann Christian August Heinroth regarded sin to be the cause of mental illness. The present two-part paper investigates what exactly Heinroth understood by sin. Based on a thorough analysis of his own texts, this study shows that on the one hand Heinroth referred to sin in a Christian-Protestant sense. On the other, however, a moral-ethical code of conduct was also involved. Thus, Heinroth did not regard sin as a singular eve…
The Sin in the Aetiological Concept of Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773–1843): Part 2: Self-Guilt as Turning Away from Reason in the Framework of Heinroth’s Concept of the Interrelationships bet…
Throughout his work Johann Christian August Heinroth regarded sin to be the cause of mental illness. The present two-part paper investigates what exactly Heinroth understood by sin. Based on a thorough analysis of his own texts, this study shows that on the one hand Heinroth referred to sin in a Christian-Protestant sense. On the other, however, a moral-ethical code of conduct was also involved. Thus, Heinroth did not regard sin as a singular eve…
Emil Kraepelin's years at Dorpat as professor of psychiatry in nineteenth-century Russia
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Emil Kraepelin's years at Dorpat as professor of psychiatry in nineteenth-century Russia
The Sin in the Aetiological Concept of Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843): Part 1: Between Theology and Psychiatry. Heinroth’s Concepts of ‘Whole Being’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Reason’ and ‘Disturbance…
Throughout his work Johann Christian August Heinroth regarded sin to be the cause of mental illness. The present two-part paper investigates what exactly Heinroth understood by sin. Based on a thorough analysis of his own texts, this study shows that on the one hand Heinroth referred to sin in a Christian-Protestant sense. On the other, however, a moral-ethical code of conduct was also involved. Thus, Heinroth did not regard sin as a singular eve…
The Sin in the Aetiological Concept of Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773–1843): Part 2: Self-Guilt as Turning Away from Reason in the Framework of Heinroth’s Concept of the Interrelationships bet…
Throughout his work Johann Christian August Heinroth regarded sin to be the cause of mental illness. The present two-part paper investigates what exactly Heinroth understood by sin. Based on a thorough analysis of his own texts, this study shows that on the one hand Heinroth referred to sin in a Christian-Protestant sense. On the other, however, a moral-ethical code of conduct was also involved. Thus, Heinroth did not regard sin as a singular eve…
Karl Kleist and his refusal of an appointment at Leipzig in 1923
Further to the study by Neumärker and Bartsch (2003) of Karl Kleist (1879-1960), this short contribution based on archive material, cited for the first time, looks into Kleist’s motives for refusing an appointment as Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Leipzig University. This study comes to the conclusion that Kleist thought seriously of moving to Leipzig. However, the Saxony Ministry of People’s Education refused to make a definite financi…
News and Notes: The tenth anniversary of the Archives for the History of Psychiatry in Leipzig
International audience
Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773–1843): The First Professor of Psychiatry as a Psychotherapist
Richard Arwed Pfeifer – a pioneer of ‘medical pedagogy’ and an opponent of Paul Schröder
Richard Arwed Pfeifer (1877–1957) was one of the initiators and foster fathers of the renowned child-psychiatric and special needs education workgroup at Leipzig University under Paul Schröder (1873–1941) in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper is an account of their dispute concerning the interrelations between child and adolescent psychiatry and special needs education, as well as their disagreement about whether adolescent psychopaths should be adm…
The creator of the term ‘anancasm’ was Hungarian: Guyla Donáth (1849–1944)
There is considerable confusion in the field of research on the history of psychiatry as to who created the term anancasm. This article seeks to clarify that the term was coined by the Hungarian psychiatrist Gyula Donáth, who was born in Baja, on the Danube, and worked mainly in Budapest. Donáth’s publications reveal that his predominant sphere of interest and research was neurology and psychiatry. A number of his publications deal with epilepsy …
The views of Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–68) on suicidality or ‘self-murder’
To date, little attention has been paid to the fact that a whole section in Wilhelm Griesinger’s textbook is devoted to suicidality. Griesinger perceived suicide as a distinct entity. In his opinion, only one-third of all suicides were committed by people suffering from mental disorders; heredity and brain anomalies could also be involved. Therapeutically, Griesinger recommended removing all potential means for suicide and admitting people at ris…
Some comparative psychiatric studies in the 19th century
This article analyses 19th-century publications which dealt with the social and cultural aspects of psychiatric disorders in different parts of the world. Systematic reviews were conducted of three German medical journals, one Russian medical journal, and a relevant monograph. All these archives were published in the 19th century. Our work highlights the fact that long before Kraepelin, several, mostly forgotten, publications had already discusse…
Die Beiträge des Nervenarztes Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) zur Sexualforschung im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Einleitung Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) wirkte als Nervenarzt und Sexualwissenschaftler zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine intensive Forschung unter anderem zur Homosexualität sowie seine Gutachtertätigkeit mit Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) sind durch diverse Publikationen belegt. Forschungsziele Bisher wurden die Arbeiten Burchards in der Medizingeschichte kaum beachtet. Die vorliegende Studie möchte erstmals seine sexologischen Beiträge system…
Back to Basics: Ernst Burchard’s Lexikon Des Gesamten Sexuallebens (Encyclopedia of the Entire Sexual Life)
Objectives Ernst Burchard (1876–1920) worked as a neurologist and sexologist in early 20th century Berlin. He was a respected sexologist and court expert who researched extensively on transvestitism and homosexuality. Due to his early death, however, he soon fell into oblivion. Only recently has his scientific work been reviewed and, among other things, his Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens (Encyclopedia of the Entire Sexual Life) has been identi…
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