Julius Wagner of Jauregg (* 7. March 1857 in Wels, "† 27 September 1940 in Vienna) was a Austrian physician and psychiatrist. For the discovery of the therapeutic meaning of the malaria inoculation with the treatment of progressive paralysis it received the Nobelpreis for medicine to 1927.

Life

After the Matura began Wagner Jauregg 1874 the study of the medicine at the University of Vienna, which he locked 1880 with the graduation to the doctor of the medicine. Until 1882 he worked on Institut for general and experimental pathology on the university and became after a short intermediate play at the section for internal medicine assistant of Maximilian wrong village at the national lunatic asylum in such a way specified. 1885 it habilitierte for the subject nervous diseases and psychiatry, although this had not been original its special field, and held themselves lectures on the pathology of the nervous system.

1889 became Wagner Jauregg of the successors of Richard of Krafft Ebing at the neuropsychiatric hospital of the University of Graz. One of its main points of research was the quantities iodine small into the Steiermark frequent Kretinismus and it obtained good successes with its Vorbeugung as well as the Vorbeugung of the Kropfes by the admixture into the drinking water and to food salt.

In the year 1893 Wagner Jauregg became extraordinary professor for psychiatry and nervous diseases and a director of the national welfare and institute for care for nerve and spirit patient in Vienna, changed 1902 to the psychiatric hospital of the Viennese University of generally hospital and returned 1911 on its earlier posts.

There Wagner Jauregg around 1900 the most famous Austrian Operettenschauspieler of the time at that time, Alexander Girardi, on operation its woman and without it ever to have seen for spirit-ill explained, taken place a little later on operation of the actress and friend of emperor Franz Joseph, Katharina Schratt, "„the neurology reform "“.

1883 were already Wagner Jauregg welfare-end effect of fever accumulations with patients been noticeable, who were gotten sick with paralysis. After attempts with Tuberkulin had shown only small successes in Graz, it most successfully succeeded to it 1917 to treat by causing fever by exciters of malaria as consequence of the Neurolues, a form of the Syphilis, arising progressive paralysis (malaria therapy). For this discovery Wagner Jauregg was distinguished 1927 with the Nobelpreis; the kind of the therapy up to arising the antibiotics one practiced. Also after it had stepped 1928 into the retirement, Wagner Jauregg up to its death remained further scientifically active.

Julius Wagner Jauregg was married with Anna cook. The married couple had the children Julia (geb. 1900) and Theodor (geb. 1903).

To the 2000er years was there an intensive effort the Austrian party the Greens to rename traffic surfaces and public health services, which are designated after Julius Wagner Jauregg, as well as to deny the honour grave on the Viennese central cemetery, since one the Austrian connections to the NSDAP, which as well as the agency of race-hygenic teachings subordinated spreading of National Socialist ideas. These reproaches were contained of a historian commission in a report for the investigation of the honour graves on the Viennese central cemetery from 1938 to 1945. This led to an extensive investigation, which was given by the country upper Austria in order, in order to clarify whether Wagner Jauregg must be regarded as historically loaded. After the results of the commission (see standing the down Web left) Wagner Jauregg was socio-politically conservative, stood for the national camp close (it looked also on 21 April 1940 around membership in the NSDAP on, but its request for one year "„because of"… race "“- its first wife had been Jewess - put back), and represented according to the spirit of the time also eugenische ideas, is however not as historically loaded to be classified.

Publication:

• Preventing and treatment of the progressive paralysis by inoculation malaria (in the manual of the experimental therapy, 1931).

Secondary literature:

• Whitrow, Magda: Julius Wagner Jauregg (1857-1940). Facultas university University of, Vienna 2001.

Related links

• Report of the commission for the evaluation of the question whether the name giver of the national mental hospital Julius v. Wagner Jauregg must be regarded as historically loaded - pdf

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