Charles Frederick Menninger
{{Short description|American physician}}
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Charles Frederick Menninger (11 July 1862 – 28 November 1953){{cite web|url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/m3/menninger_charles_frederic.html |title=Charles Frederic Menninger - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912 |accessdate=2009-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013005759/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/m3/menninger_charles_frederic.html |archivedate=2012-10-13 }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/11/29/archives/dr-menninger-91-is-dead-in-topeka-founder-of-famed-psychiatric.html|title=DR. MENNINGER, 91, IS DEAD IN TOPEKA; Founder of Famed Psychiatric Study Center Developed Ways to Aid Veterans|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 November 1953}} was a physician who co-founded the Menninger Foundation with his sons, Karl and William.[http://www.menningerclinic.com/about/early-history.htm#CFMenninger Charles Frederick Menninger, MD], from the Menninger Clinic in Houston's website.
Biography
Charles Menninger was born in Tell City, Indiana on July 11, 1862. He was the sixth of August Valentine and Katarina (née Schmitberger) Menninger's eight children and their youngest son.{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/archives/223942 |title=Papers of Charles Frederick Menninger |date= |website= |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=July 6, 2015 |quote=Charles Fredrick Menninger was born at Tell City, Indiana, on July 11, 1862 to August Valentine and Katherine Schmitberger Menninger. C.F. was the sixth of 8 children, and the youngest son to August and Katherine.}} Menninger obtained a bachelor's degree from Central Normal College in 1882 and after graduating he accepted a teaching position at Campbell College.{{cite book |last=Friedman |first=Lawrence J. |date=1990 |title=Menninger: The Family and the Clinic |location=New York |publisher=Knopf |page=5 |oclc=636005188 }}
Menninger married Florence Vesta Knisley, on January 15, 1885 and together they had three children: Karl, Edwin,{{cite web |url= https://www.thefloridagardeningproject.com/the-flowering-tree-man|title= The Flowering Tree Man |date= |website= |publisher=The Florida Gardening Project|access-date=September 1, 2024}} and William. Florence died on February 9, 1945,{{rp|157}} and he married Pearl Boam on June 15, 1948. He died on November 28, 1953.
Menninger completed his medical training at Chicago's Hahnemann Medical College in 1889 and moved to Topeka, Kansas where a small medical school, affiliated with Washburn College, was operated by members of the local medical community. He was taken on as a junior partner by Henry Roby, who influenced his pursuit of additional medical training focused on internal medicine and metabolic issues.{{rp|8–9}} Menninger graduated from the Kansas Medical College in 1906 and was elected to the faculty of the medical college. In 1919, upon completion of his son Karl's medical training at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the two formed a professional partnership and opened the Menninger Clinic.{{rp|33–34}} His other son William C. Menninger joined them in 1925 and the facility was renamed the Menninger Sanitarium.{{cite web |url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/karl-menninger/17218 |title=Karl Menninger |last=Gaylord |first=Kristina |date=July 2011 |website=Kansapedia |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=July 6, 2015 |quote=In 1925 Will Menninger joined his father and brother in the practice, which they renamed the Menninger Sanitarium, and relocated to a 20-acre site.}} It eventually evolved into the Menninger Foundation, a national institution for the study and care of people suffering from mental illnesses.
Legacy
The Charles Frederick Menninger Award is given by the American Psychoanalytic Association for original research in psycho-analysis.http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=IJP.038.0436E
References
External links
- Search on Charles Frederick Menninger in [http://www.kshs.org/p/menninger-foundation-archives/13787 Menninger Foundation Archives] from Kansas State Historical Society
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Category:American psychiatrists
Category:People from Tell City, Indiana
Category:Physicians from Kansas
Category:Canterbury College (Indiana) alumni
Category:Hahnemann Medical College alumni
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