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Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser
German psychiatrist, born January 24, 1853, Rhaunen, Rheinprovinz; died January 4, 1931.
Associated eponyms:
Ganser's syndrome
A factitious disorder, characterised by the individual mimicking behaviour he or she thinks is typical of a psychosis, providing nonsensical or wrong answers to questions, and doing things incorrectly.
Biography:
Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser studied in Würzburg, Strassburg, and München, where he obtained his doctorate in 1876. He became assistant at Franz von Rinecker's (1811-1883) psychiatric clinic in Würzburg, then worked with Johan Bernhard Aloys von Gudden (1824-1886) in München. Ganser was habilitated in München in 1880, and in 1884 embarked on his institutional career. He first worked in Sorau, Mark Brandenburg (now Zarau in Poland).
In 1886 he went to Dresden as professor and head of the lunatic department of the Dresden General Hospital, which he made into the city institution for the incurables and the mentally ill (Irren- und Siechenanstalt). Later he worked with Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) and also taught the neurologist Hans Queckenstedt (1887-1918). Little is known about Ganser's life after 1904.
We thank Stephen Page for submitting information.
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