!!!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 OeBL. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Riedel,_Josef_Gottfried|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]