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August Hoch was born on April 20, 1868 in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Theodor and Valérie (Schneider) Hoch. His father was a clergyman and director of the City and University Hospital.
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August Hoch (1868–1919) was the third director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. As a neuropathologist and clinician, he exerted his influence on psychiatric developments during the early 20th century in the United States. Hoch was born in Basel, Switzerland, the son of a minister, who was also director of the Basel University Hospital. At the age of 19, he emigrated to the United States to pursue his education. He spent two years at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was influenced by Dr. William Osler. When Osler moved to Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Hoch followed to work at the Johns Hopkins outpatient neurological clinic and to pursue medical training at the University of Maryland. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1890. He remained an assistant to Osler in the clinic. After several years, Hoch accepted a position at the McLean Psychiatric Hospital near Boston, Massachusetts, to develop the pathological and psychological laboratories and the clinical psychiatric programs. Before moving to McLean, he spent two years in Europe to study with Friedrich von Recklinghausen, a pathologist at the University of Strasbourg; with Wilhelm Wundt, a psychologist at the University of Leipzig; and with Emil Kraepelin, a psychiatrist at the University of Heidelberg. He married during his European trip.
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August Hoch was born on April 20, 1868 in Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Theodor and Valérie (Schneider) Hoch. His father was a clergyman and director of the City and University Hospital.
Hoch was educated at the local gymnasium, and then he chose the United States for his medical training and matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1887. Here he seems to have come under the influence of William Osler, whom he followed to Johns Hopkins. He took his degree in medicine at the University of Maryland in 1890 and became an assistant at the neurological clinic of Johns Hopkins, under Doctor Harry Thomas. He was allowed leave of absence for postgraduate study abroad and was accompanied on his tour by Doctor Simon Flexner. He studied brain anatomy under Schwalbe, experimental psychology under Wundt, and clinical psychiatry under Kraepelin.
By 1895 he was back at Waverley but two years later made a second trip to Europe, where he studied again under Kraepelin and also took courses under Nissl in brain histology.
In 1908 he undertook a third journey to Europe, where he studied under Swiss masters: brain anatomy under Von Monakow, psychiatry under Bleuler, and psychology and psychoanalysis under Jung.
In 1893 Hoch obtained a post at the McLean Hospital, Waverley, Massachussets, with the title of psychologist and pathologist of the Cowles Research Laboratories. In the same year he published an English translation of a textbook by Ludwig Hirt under the title The Diseases of the Nervous System, to which Osler contributed a special preface.
In 1905 he resigned from the McLean Hospital to accept the position of assistant physician to Bloomingdale Asylum, White Plains, New York. He also became instructor in psychiatry in the Cornell Medical School.
Upon his return from Europe, having now received a full training in the modern scientific school of psychiatry, he was appointed successor to Adolf Meyer in the chair of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical School and director of the Psychiatric Institute of the New York State Hospitals, Ward's Island. He remained active in these two posts until 1917 when by reason of ill health he resigned and removed to Montecito, California.
He had done editorial work and considerable writing for periodical literature but the only approach to a major contribution was a posthumous volume, Benign Stupors (1921). His journal articles include: "Deliriums Produced by Drugs" (1906); "Psychogenic Factors in the Development of Psychoses, " (1907); "Constitutional Factors in the Dementia Precox Group, " (1910); and other. Other subjects dealt with were general paralysis, involutional melancholia, loss of the reality sense, action of tea on the mind, histology of the brain in various diseases. From 1912 to 1915 he was editor of the New York State Hospital Bulletin and of its continuation, the Psychiatric Bulletin, from 1916 to 1917.
His death, which took place from renal failure at the University Hospital, San Francisco, was untimely, for his career had not come to a full fruition and numerous plans were cut short.
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Hoch was a member of the American Neurological Society, the American Medico-Psychological Society (now the American Psychiatric Association), and the New York Neurological Society.
Hoch was described as a man of charming personality and open mind, who could adapt new and revolutionary teachings to old dogmas and avoid becoming either ultra-radical or ultra-conservative.
In July 1894 Hoch married Emmy Münch of Basel.