Ewald Hecker
1843–1909
German psychiatrist. Doctorate, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), 1866. Worked with Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum at mental institutions in Görlitz (now Zgorzelec in Poland). Campaigned for the abolition of restraining practices in treating the mentally ill.
Source
DBE.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
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