Franz Josef Kallmann
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| Born | July 24, 1897 Neumarkt, Silesia |
| Died | May 12, 1965 (aged 67) New York |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Known for | Kallmann's syndrome |
Franz Josef Kallmann MD (July 24, 1897 Neumarkt, Silesia – May 12, 1965 New York), a German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease.
As a Jew, he fled Germany in 1936 for the United States.[1] Paradoxically, he had been a student of Dr. Ernst Rüdin, one of the architects of racial hygiene policies in Nazi Germany.[2] In a speech delivered in 1935, while still in Germany, he advocated the examination of relatives of schizophrenia patients with the aim to find and sterilize the "nonaffected carriers" of the supposed recessive gene responsible for the condition.[3]
In 1944 he described a congenital endocrine condition (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with anosmia) that has come to be known as Kallmann's syndrome.
In 1948 he became one of the founders of the American Society of Human Genetics.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Obituary Franz Joseph Kallman, 1897-1965, The American Journal of Psychiatry, July 1966, Issue 123 pages 105-106
- ^ a b Torrey EF, Yolken RH (September 2009). "Psychiatric Genocide: Nazi Attempts to Eradicate Schizophrenia". Schizophr Bull 36 (1): 26–32. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbp097. PMC 2800142. PMID 19759092. http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=19759092.
- ^ Muller-Hill B. Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933–1945.Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1988: 11, 31, 42–43, 70.
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