Oswald Bumke

Oswald Bumke
Oswald Bumke
Born	25 September 1877 Stolp
Died	January 5, 1950 Munich
Nationality	German
Fields	psychiatrist neurologist

Oswald Bumke (25 September 1877 in Stolp, Pomerania; January 5, 1950 in Munich) was an important and famous German psychiatrist and neurologist. His time in Leipzig from 1921 to 1924 and subsequently in Munich up to the mid-1930s saw the second major phase in his scientific work, during which he laid the basis for the renown he still enjoys as a result of his specialist encyclopedic textbooks and manuals summarising the current knowledge of his time. At the beginning of the 1920s he made his stand on the burning issues of the day and thus influenced the conceptional history of the subject. For instance, he proposed his own philosophical psychology, rejecting the experimental psychological approach of Emil Kraepelin. By challenging the libido theory and the dynamic unconscious he weakened the impact of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis on German scientific psychiatry. Moreover, Bumke strongly opposed the prevailing concept of degeneration and its main protagonist Ernst Rüdin. Owing to the political and social developments at the time, however, he was not able to raise much support among his colleagues.

References

• Steinberg, H (March 2008). "Oswald Bumke in Leipzig. Beyond Kraepelin, Freud and Rüdin's Entartungslehre". Der Nervenarzt (Germany) 79 (3): 348–56. doi:10.1007/s00115-007-2356-3. ISSN 0028-2804. PMID 17985109. 

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Name	Bumke, Oswald
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Date of birth	25 September 1877
Place of birth	Stolp
Date of death	January 5, 1950
Place of death	Munich