Ernst Jentsch belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Ernst Jentsch as German psychiatrist.
Ernst Jentsch was born at Wrocław in 1867. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, neurology and psychiatry.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ernst Jentsch died in 1919, aged 52. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine, neurology and psychiatry
