«Reformer» of Wilhelmine Era: Bernhard Martin von Bulow (1849-1929)

Dissertation von Martin Galanda

Polygonal subdivisions, i.e. the representation of categorical data in the vector model, are a common data type in GIS applications, in thematic maps, in topographic maps and in digital landscape models. Their cartographic generalization is termed polygon generalization. Cartographic generalization or generalization is one of the basic principles of cartography, namely the legible and comprehen...

Festschrift. Bernhard Nocht. Von Scinen Freuden und Schulern

Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden and the Mad King of Bavaria

Bernhard von Gudden was a psychiatrist in Prussia and he was summoned in March 1886 to examine King Ludwig II for his apparently insane activities like, profligate spending and erratic behaviour. A team of four estimable psychiatrists pronounced that he was not capable ruling. Consequently, he was dethroned and kept in a castle under supervision of von Gudden. Gudden championed the idea of 'no ...

Tackling Taboos—From Psychopathia Sexualis to the Materialisation of Dreams: Albert von Schrenck-Notzing (1862–1929)

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, M.D., is one of the most controversial fi gures in the history of medicine and science. A pioneer of hypnotism and sexology in late 19th century Germany, he was to become the doyen of early 20th century German psychical research. Supported by the philosophers Hans Driesch and Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich and the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, his work was attacked b...

Raspail, Scientist and Reformer

soil in which they were found but are the remains of animals living in the sea on whose bed the soil (sediment) was deposited. The latter paper is a summary of a projected further work which unfortunately never appeared. It is the Prodromus that contained the first statement of the Law of Superposition; and much more. 'If, in a certain stratum, we find great abundance of rushes, grass, pine con...