Edward Flatau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Flatau

Polish neurologist

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1868

Place of Birth: Płock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1932

Profession: neurologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edward Flatau (27 December 1868, Plock – 7 June 1932, Warsaw) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist.
He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical journals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
His name in medicine is linked to Redlich-Flatau syndrome, Flatau-Sterling torsion dystonia (type 1), Flatau-Schidler disease, and Flatau's law.
His publications greatly influenced the developing field of neurology.
He published a human brain atlas (1894), wrote a fundamental book on migraine (1912), established the localization principle of long fibers in the spinal cord (1893), and with Sterling published an early paper (1911) on progressive torsion spasm in children and suggested that the disease has a genetic component.