Author: Selmer, H.
Title: Isaak Nathansen : En psycho-pathologisk Skildring
Description: n.p. [Copenhagen], n.p. [Bibliothek for Laeger], n.d. [1848]. binder's wraps. 19x12cm, 123 pp, Title inked on cover. Some foxing. Good.. Late 19th-Century binder's crude blank wrappers. Minor soil. ¶ An offprint from the Copenhagen medical serial "Bibliothek for Laeger" [' Physician's Library'], April 1848. A psycho-biographical case-study positing as "manic" the Randers [Jutland] Danish-Jewish horse trader, Isaak Nathansen [1796-18??],a noted eccentric, self-publisher of a number of curious pamphlets & owner of a scurrilous Copenhagen journal "Korvetten Politivennen"; tried for slander for his Copenhagen journalism and found innocent, emigrated to Rio de Janeiro in 1847.

Keywords: Danish Literary History, Isaak Nathansen, Denmark Jews, Danish Journalism, Jewish Minority, Psychopathology, Manic Depression, Bipolar Syndrome, Insanity Insane, Mental Illness