Emanuel Mendel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Emanuel Mendel

German politician

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1839

Place of Birth: Bolesławiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1907

Profession: politician, psychiatrist, neurologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Emanuel Mendel

  • For the prominent curbstone broker, see Emanuel S.
  • Mendels Emanuel Mendel (October 28, 1839 – June 23, 1907) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a university professor (from 1884 an associate professor) and director of a polyclinic in Berlin.
  • He was born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia; (today known as Boleslawiec, Poland) into a Jewish family.He studied medicine in Berlin and in 1871 received his habilitation for psychiatry.
  • Mendel was an advocate in regards to the unification of psychiatry and neurology as complementary disciplines.
  • Among his better-known students and assistants were Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), Edward Flatau (1869–1932), Lazar Minor (1855–1942) and Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863–1940) Mendel is remembered for the introduction of duboisine, an extract from the Australian plant Dubosia myoporoides, as a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
  • Also, he conducted important studies of epilepsy and progressive paralysis.Among his medical writings was a textbook on psychiatry titled Leitfaden der Psychiatrie für Studirende der Medizin (1902), later translated into English and published as "Text-book of psychiatry : A psychological study of insanity for practitioners and students".
  • Also, he was founder and publisher of the neurological/psychiatric magazine Neurologisches Centralblatt.Mendel was interested in politics, and was a member of the Reichstag from 1877 to 1881.

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