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Julius Post

1913 – 2001

Post, Julius Ferdinand Hans Ernst [Felix] (1913–2001), psychiatrist

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Lived 1913 – 2001 (aged 88). Julius Post was a psychiatrist.

Felix Post (25 July 1913 – 23 March 2001) was a German-born British doctor, and a leading psychiatrist of the second half of the 20th century. There, he completed his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying as a doctor in 1939.

Post worked at Hammersmith Hospital (alongside Sir Aubrey Lewis) and at Whipps Cross, taking up psychiatry at the Mill Hill Emergency Hospital (part of Maudsley Hospital during the war).

The Felix Post Unit at Maudsley Hospital commemorates him. Tom Arie, for the Royal College of Physicians, wrote:He inspired a generation of pupils in many countries who, stimulated by his clinical teaching and research, built special services for old people.

Selected bibliography

The significance of affective symptoms in old age (London, Oxford University Press, 1962) The clinical psychiatry of late life (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1965) Persistent persecutory states of the elderly (Oxford/New York, Pergamon Press,1966)

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Who was Julius Post?

Post, Julius Ferdinand Hans Ernst [Felix] (1913–2001), psychiatrist

When was Julius Post born?

Julius Post was born on 17 January 1913.

When did Julius Post die?

Julius Post died on 17 January 2001.

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Julius Post was a psychiatrist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Julius Post

· Wikidata: Q18819547

· DBpedia: Felix Post

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