Carl Georg Lange ( Dates Carl Georg Lange ; December 4, 1834 , on the island of Zealand - May 25, 1900 , Copenhagen ) - Danish physician , physiologist , psychiatrist , psychologist , philosopher , teacher , professor of pathology of the University of Copenhagen (1885), Honorary Doctor of Lund University (1893).
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Biography
The older brother of Julius Henryk Lange . After graduating from the Metropolitan School in 1853, he received a medical education, in 1859 becoming a candidate of medicine.
In 1860-1862, he was a doctor in the Frederick hospital, in 1863 he took part in an expedition to Greenland to analyze the spread of diseases, then again from 1863 to 1866 he worked as an assistant in the Frederick hospital under the guidance of E. Dalerup.
Military doctor in the hospital of Almindelig (1866-1867).
In 1867-1868, C. Lange took a course in histology and internships with C.J. Ebert and G. Frey in Zurich, physiology with M. Schiff in France.
Since 1875, K. Lange is an assistant professor of pathology, lectured on inflammatory pathology, then on manic-depressive psychosis .
Scientific activity
In 1868, K. Lange conducted a study of bulbar syndrome , in 1874 - chronic polio .
K. Lange was especially famous for his peripheral theory of the emergence of emotions - the vasomotor theory of emotions, in which he assigned the leading role to the somato-vegetative component. In it, emotions are interpreted as subjective formations arising in response to nervous excitement due to the state of innervation and the width of the blood vessels of the visceral organs. This theory was put forward by Lange, not being familiar with the theory of W. James (1884), so it was called the James-Lange theory .
From the whole spectrum of mental movements, he singled out and examined in detail what he called the “most pronounced and characteristic emotions”: joy , sadness , fear , anger , and also with some assumptions: embarrassment, impatience, disappointment. K. Lange described the main features of the "physiology" and "physiognomy" of emotions, their physiological and behavioral components.
In addition, K. Lange discovered and was the first to describe the psychotropic properties of lithium .
Selected Papers
- Om Sindsbevaegelser, (1885)
- Om periodiske Depressionstilstande, (1886)
- Les emotions, 1895, (in Russian translation: Emotions, M., 1896)
- Mental movements, St. Petersburg, 1896
- Sinnesgenusse und Kunstgenuss (incomplete).
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .