Julius Hallervorden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Julius Hallervorden

German physician

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1882

Place of Birth: East Prussia

Date of Death: 29-May-1965

Profession: neurologist, military physician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Julius Hallervorden

  • Julius Hallervorden (21 October 1882 – 29 May 1965) was a German physician and neuroscientist.
  • In 1938, he became the head of the Neuropathology Department of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research.
  • He was a member of the Nazi Party, and admitted to knowingly performing much of his research on the brains of executed prisoners and participated in the action T4 euthanasia program.In a conversation with Leo Alexander, a Jewish Austrian neurologist and Holocaust refugee who was forced to emigrate to the United States during World War II, Hallervorden said the following of his participation in the T4 program: Hallervorden: "Look here now, boys.
  • If you are going to kill all those people, at least take the brains out so that the material can be utilized.” They asked me, “ How many can you examine?” and so I told them ...
  • the more the better". Along with Hugo Spatz, Hallervorden is credited with the discovery of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome (now referred to as Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration).
  • After World War II, Hallervorden became President of the German Neuropathological Society and continued his research at the Max Planck Institute in Giessen, Germany.

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