Riedel, Josef Gottfried#
Riedel, Josef Gottfried, b. Frydlant, Czech Republic (then Friedland), Jan. 17, 1803, d. Vienna, Nov. 7, 1870, physician, reformed of the care of the mentally ill in Austria; director of Prague mental hospital, 1851 called to Vienna as director of the mental hospital (est. in 1849). Turned the Narrenturm into a nursing home, introduced clinical teaching and a humanistic aspect into psychiatry.
Works#
Prags Irrenanstalt, 1830; Aerztl. Berichte ueber die k. k. Irren-Heil- u. Pflegeanstalt zu Wien, 1858ff.Literature#
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