Heinrich Averbeck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physician/native of Bremen
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Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
About Heinrich Averbeck
- Johann Heinrich Bernhard Martin Averbeck (13 August 1844 – 2 February 1889) was a German physician who was a native of Bremen. In 1868 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Basel, where he was a student of Carl von Liebermeister (1833-1901).
- He also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen and Tübingen, and in addition to Liebermeister, regarded Karl Ewald Hasse (1810-1902), Jakob Henle (1809-1885) and August Socin (1837-1889) as important influences to his medical career. Between 1868 and 1879 Averbeck was a general practitioner and obstetrician in Bremen, and in 1879 opened an institute for physical therapy at Baden-Baden.
- Beginning in 1882 he developed a health spa and physical therapy clinic at Bad Laubach bei Koblenz, which was described as a model institution of physical medicine. Averbeck was a pioneer in the field of physiotherapy.
- He believed that the right combination of therapeutic exercises and massage were vital in the treatment of chronic illness and disease.
- Among his written works was a treatise on acute neurasthenia called Die akute Neurasthenie, die plötzliche Erschöpfung der nervösen Energie.
- Reportedly, Sigmund Freud found it an important reference work in his research involving the correlation of modern-day stress and neurasthenia.Heinrich Averbeck was brother-in-law to neurologist Otto Binswanger (1852-1929).
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