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).
[ Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, 44-45 Sp. (biography)] He was conferred
Physician 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.[ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie (biography)] He died of angina pectoris.[ Rudolf Arndt @ Who Named It]
He is known today for the "Arndt-Schulz rule", a pharmacology principle of homeopathy that is named in conjunction with German chemist Hugo Schulz (1853-1932).[ Medical Dictionary Arndt-Schulz rule] He is also remembered for his investigations of neurasthenia.[ Google Books Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church][ Man and Woman: Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters by Havelock Ellis]
Awards and decorations
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Order of the Crown, 4th class with Swords (Prussia, 1866)
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Iron Cross of 1870, 2nd class on white-black band (Prussia, 1871)
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Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion (Baden)
Selected writings
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Aus einem apoplectischen Gehirn, 1878 - On the apoplectic brain.
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Die Neurasthenie (Nervenschwäche), ihr Wesen, ihre Bedeutung und Behandlung, 1885 - Neurasthenia (nerve weakness), its nature, its meaning and treatment.
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Der Verlauf der Psychosen, 1887 (with August Dohm) - The course of psychosis.
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Was sind Geisteskrankheiten?, 1897 - What is mental illness?
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