Dornblüth, Otto Wilhelm Albert Julius
Dornblüth, Otto Wilhelm Albert Julius
Physician, Psychiatrist
born: 19.03.1860 in Rostock
died: 29.12.1922 in Wiesbaden
Dornblüth, the son of a doctor, studied medicine in Rostock, Tübingen and Munich and received his doctorate in 1884.
He then worked as an assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic in Rostock and at the Psychiatric Clinic in Munich. In 1886 he became a doctor for mental illness in the provincial service of Silesia and from 1892 he was director of the provincial sanatorium in Freiburg (Silesia) and from 1895 a neurologist in Rostock. He then moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1900, where he ran a private clinic from 1902-08. He then moved to Wiesbaden and ran the Dr. Dornblüth Sanatorium in Händelstraße.
His works include "Compendium der inneren Medizin" (1892), "Wörterbuch der klinischen Kunstausdrücke" (1894), "Compendium der Psychiatrie " (1894), "Diätisches Kochbuch" (1897), "Arzneimittel der heutigen Medizin" (18898), "Moderne Therapie" (1906) and "Psychoneurosen" (1911).
His dictionary of clinical terms and his cookbook were particularly successful and both went through numerous editions. The second edition of his dictionary was published in 1901 with the title of the standard work of medical literature "Klinisches Wörterbuch" (also "Pschyrembel"), which is still valid today and was published in its 266th edition in 2014.
Literature
Biographical dictionary of the outstanding physicians of the last 50 years. Also a continuation of the Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker, vol. 1, ed.: Fischer, Isidor, Berlin [u.a.] 1932 and 1933.
Leibbrand, Werner: Dornblüth, Otto. In: New German Biography [p. 79].