Arthur Kronfeld (* 9 January 1886 in Berlin; "† 16 October 1941 in Moscow) was a German psychiatrist.

As Psychotherapeut and psychologist, Sexualwissenschaftler and science theoretician, in addition, politically engaged a physician Arthur Kronfeld unusually broadly more educated and far engaged a Jewish scientist with thorough philosophical training and artistic inclinations, Dr.med was et phil., professor at the the Friedrich William university in Berlin and at"” neuropsychiatric Forschungsinstitut Gannuschkin "“, today's Forschungsinstitut for psychiatry in Moscow, where he separated under unsettled circumstances by common Suizid with his wife from the life.

Life

1886 - 1904: Childhood and youth

Arthur Kronfeld was born as the first of four children of the attorney Dr.jur. Salomon, towards. Sally Kronfeld from Thorn, son of a Jewish Kantors, royal senior counsel in Berlin since 1884, and his Mrs. Laura, Tochter of the Cologne Kommerzienrats and city delegate Benjamin dear man. To parents' house, childhood and youth little is well-known. - Min ever Maria Dronke in their exile in New Zealand some admittingness min never did not attain his 1904 born sister under her later name.

1904 - 1909: Study time

1904 Primus of the Sophiengymnasiums in Berlin center; first admitted publication"” Goethe and Haeckel "“to 70. Birthday second and beginning of a friendship of many years with the law student at that time and later writer Kurt Hiller, the pioneer of the literary expressionism.

Medicine study in Jena, Munich, Berlin (over its first, 1906 published and Ernst Haeckel dedicated book with a evolution-theoretical paper over"” and aesthetic feeling "“in former times contact with Magnus deer field; starting from 1907 lifelong friendship with from Berlin originating the philosopher Leonard Nelson with intensive commitment in its circle, also of mathematicians such as Carl Runge, Ernst Zermelo, Felix Klein and Hermann Minkowski, above all however of David Hilbert estimated new Fries' school and from this adult Jakob Friedrich Fries society - in this before that 1. World war of deputy chairmen and secretaries - with Alexander Arnold and Bertha Gysin, Carl Brinkmann, Ernst Blumenthal, Franz Oppenheimer, Gerhard Hessen mountain, Hans's mill stone and Rademacher, Heinrich Goesch, iris Runge, Karl emperor, Kurt Grelling, Ludwig Ruben, Marcel T. Djuvara, max fount, Michael Kowalewsky, Otto Apelt, Paul Bernays, Richard Courant, Rudolf Otto, Walter field man, Alleweldt, Baade and Dubislav as well as many other, in whom K learned its two years older fellow student and later Otto Meyerhof to know and estimate. above all; later also member in the society of the friends of the philosophical-political academy, who opened for their part 1924 boarding school milling mill were, with contacts '' international socialist combat federation, created created of Nelson 1918 beside '' the international socialist young final federation '' (IJB), in the 1926 '' (ISK) and the further periphery Nelsons with Erna Blencke, Georges switching fire, Grete Henry Herrmann, Gustav tail man, Heinrich Julius Kraft, Mary Saran, max of Hodann, Minna woodpecker, Otto Lowenstein, Willi Eichler among other things), conclusion of the study 1908 in Heidelberg, where it learned to know and others Viktor of which it with Meyerhof and probably also with the writings from Sigmund Freud admits made, and medical state examination there of 1909.

1909 - 1919: First probations

Fireworks in Heidelberg

Technical training as Medizinalpraktikant at the citizen of Berlin of urban hospital Moabit under George Klemperer and at the grossherzoglichen psychiatric university clinic Heidelberg under Franz Nissl; a study for 1906 and after it designated serologischen reaction, developed accomplished by this nearly on the day exactly one year after Karl Jaspers on 7 December 1909, one week after its friend Meyerhof, which had submitted the third part for the psychology of the illusion of its book of"” contributions for the psychological theory of the mental disorders "“as thesis, with with Emil baron von Dungern at Krebsforschungsinstitut Heidelberg under Vincenz Czerny, from August von Wassermann also attains a doctorate and to 1 June 1910 as a first budget-moderate assistant employed, after doing its military service 1911/12 among other things with the in Berlin as an unsalaried employee assistant actively - together with Karl Wilmanns, Hans's walter Gruhle, August Homburger, Otto climb, Albrecht Wetzel as well as Martin pasteboard home and Karl Jaspers, whereby he dedicated himself together with Jaspers, Gruhle as well as Meyerhof and its friend Otto being castle, under participation of the medical student at that time Vladimir Eliasberg first to the analysis of the"” psychological theories Freud's and related opinions "“, whose registered results he even in the USA then already end of 1911 publish and 1913 out also in a Russian translation in Moscow bring could. 1912 further graduation to the Dr.phil with one than student in Berlin with Theodor pulling experimentalpsychological association study already begun"” to the mechanism of the view "“with the philosopher August measurer in pouring.

During the Heidelberger years also briefly more intensive commitment in the context of the literary early expressionism with poems, essays and book reviews into the action of Franz Pfemfert, the storm of Herwarth Walden, Saturn of Hermann master and Herbert Grossberger, the Kondor of Kurt Hiller and the Argonauten by Ernst Blass; over Hiller and his citizen of Berlin new club also admits or gets used to of Erwin Loewenson (Golo Gangi) with George Heym, Jakob van Hoddis (investigation 1912), David Baumgardt, Friedrich Schulze Maizier, as well as with Alexandra ram Pfemfert and Else Lasker pupil, in Heidelberg with Gustav wheel break, Jacob Picard and Friedrich Burschell, probably with Kurt Wildhagen, the brother of Fritz Wildhagen as well as with max of Scheler and Otto Buek; 1911 also cooperation at the supplement to the Heidelberger newspaper literature and science; Friendship with the son of king Chulalongkorn of Thailand, that with a Heidelbergerin in August 1912 philosophy students prince Rangsit von Chainad as well as own engagement married with Sophie ride mountain made of Warsaw in August 1913.

To the autumn of 1913 changes to Berlin to the urban lunatic asylum Wittenau (Humboldt clinical center, ehem. Karl Bonhoeffer mental hospital) to Hugo Liepmann with expansion and intensification of its science-theoretical studies over the psychological bases of the psychological medicine and international publication activity.

War fire

In the First World War front physician among other things before Verdun and Douaumont, several times excellently; after a head injury 1917 transfer to Freiburg i.Br. into the war military hospital of the army department B for the setting up one nerve station as well as 1918 also a flier commission of inquiry for the execution of aeropsychological investigations. In this time marrying with the shorthand-typist Lydia Quien originating from Berlin. In November 1918 prominent role in the Freiburger worker and soldier advice, establishment of an university graduate trade union and on 11 November of mentally leading delegates in the national committee of Baden in Karlsruhe with the proclamation of the new republican government.

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