Tag: 1850-1899

Carl Wickland

Carl Wickland

Carl August Wickland (born Carl August Wicklund, 14 February 1861 – 13 November 1945)[1] was a 20th-century Swedish-American psychiatrist and psychical researcher. Wickland turned away from conventional medical psychology and toward the belief that psychiatric illnesses were the result of influence by spirits of the dead. Wickland came to believe that a large number of his patients had become possessed by what he called "obsessing spirits", Read more [...]
Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов[note 1], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860[note 2] – 15 July 1904[note 3]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.[4][5] Along with Henrik Read more [...]
Julius Levin

Julius Levin

Julius Levin (* 21. Januar 1862 in Elbing; † 29. Januar 1935 in Brüssel) was a German MD, author and violin maker. He also wrote many books as author. Moderne Modemaler, Berlin 1887 Die Hygiene und Diätetik des Wochenbettes, Berlin 1892 Was tut der deutschen Kunst not?, Berlin 1912 Das Lächeln des Herrn von Golubice-Golubicki, Berlin 1915 Zweie und der Liebe Gott, Berlin 1919 Wehrmann Ismer, Berlin 1920 Die singende Dame, Read more [...]
van Leeuwen

van Leeuwen

Born in 1872 Dr. van Leeuwen became MD in 1897. Besides he studied music and began working scientifically about building violins. After 5 years of learning he fully built violins, creating his own system and was well-known because of their sonority. In Brussels he got the silver medal in 1910. web wikipedia DEwikipedia EN youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Franjo Kresnik

Franjo Kresnik

Dr. Franjo (Franz) Kresnik (born Wien 1869 – died Rijeka 1943) was an excellent physician and a Central European intellectual, a bohemian mind whose two loves in life made him very special. His passions were medicine and violin making. Most of his life was spent in Sušak (now a part of Rijeka, Croatia), where he worked, played music and studied the art of making stringed instruments. He visited Cremona on several occasions and studied a number of violins, drawings and tools made and used Read more [...]
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ] (listen); 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German[3] polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His Read more [...]