Rudolf Arndt

Rudolf Arndt

Rudolf Gottfried Arndt (31 March 1835 – 29 January 1900) was a German psychiatrist from Bialken, district of Marienwerder.

Biography

Arndt studied in Greifswald and Halle. As a student, his instructors included Felix von Niemeyer (1820–1871), Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819–1895), and Heinrich Philipp August Damerow (1798–1866).[1] He was conferred doctor of medicine on 20 February 1860. From 1861 he maintained a private practice, and also participated in the Second Schleswig War (1864), Austro-Prussian War (1866) and Franco-Prussian War (1870–71).

In 1867 he obtained his habilitation, subsequently serving as director of the Irren-Heil- und Pflege-Anstalt in Greifswald. In 1873 he became an associate professor of psychiatry at Greifswald.[2] He died of angina pectoris.[3]

He is known today for the "Arndt-Schulz rule", a pharmacologic principle of homeopathy that is named in conjunction with German chemist Hugo Schulz (1853-1932).[4] He is also remembered for his investigations of neurasthenia.[5][6]

Awards and decorations

Selected writings

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, 44-45 Sp. (biography)
  2. ↑ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie (biography)
  3. ↑ Rudolf Arndt @ Who Named It
  4. ↑ Medical Dictionary Arndt-Schulz rule
  5. ↑ Google Books Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church
  6. ↑ Man and Woman: Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters by Havelock Ellis
  7. ↑ IDREF.fr (bibliography)
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