Bonhoeffer
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Karl Bonhoeffer was a prominent psychiatrist born in 1868 who held professorships at several German universities, including Berlin. He was a major researcher in psychiatric disorders among alcoholics and authored significant works on acute psychoses and their relationship to infections and other diseases.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
BONHOEFFER, Karl (Karl Bonhoeffer), a renowned psychiatrist (born in 1868). After graduating from the University of Tübingen in 1892, he successively held professorships of psychiatry in Königsberg, Munich, Heidelberg, and Breslau. Finally, in 1912, B. took up the professorship of psychiatry at the University of Berlin, where he continues to serve to the present time. B. is one of the foremost researchers in the field of psychiatric diseases among alcoholics. His most important works are: "Seitenstrangerscheinungen bei akuten Psychosen", Lpz., 1896; "Die akuten Geisteskrankheiten der Gewohnheitstrinker", Jena, 1901; "Die Psychosen im Gefolge von akuten Infektionen" (Handbuch d. Psychiatrie, T. 3, 1 Aufl., Lpz., 1912); "Die symptomatischen Psychosen im Gefolge von akuten Infektionen und inneren Erkrankungen", Leipzig, 1910, and many others.
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“Bonhoeffer.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/bonhoeffer/