Heinrich Vogt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinrich Vogt

German physician

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1875

Place of Birth: Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1957

Profession: physician, author, neurologist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Heinrich Vogt

  • Heinrich Vogt (23 April 1875, in Regensburg – 24 September 1957, in Bad Pyrmont) was a German neurologist.
  • He published papers on tuberous sclerosis and Batten disease, and was the author of a handbook on the treatment of nervous diseases. In 1901 he obtained his habilitation for neurology, and six years later became a professor of psychiatry at the University of Göttingen.
  • In 1909 he was named director of the department of psychiatry at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main.
  • In 1911 he was appointed director of a neurological sanatorium in Wiesbaden.
  • In 1925, he moved to the spa town of Bad Pyrmont, where he worked as a medical hydrologist.
  • He later opened a research institute of balneology in Breslau, but when the city became part of Poland, he returned to Bad Pyrmont.
  • Vogt was amongst the first physicians to study "juvenile amaurotic familial idiocy" (Batten disease).
  • He published two papers on the subject in 1905 and 1911. In 1908, Vogt published a paper Zur Diagnostik der tuberösen Sklerose ("The Diagnosis of Tuberous Sclerosis").
  • He established three pathognomonic clinical signs for the condition: epilepsy, idiocy and adenoma sebaceum.
  • These became known as "Vogt's triad" and helped define the condition for the next 60 years.
  • This shouldn't be confused with the "Vogt's triad" seen in glaucoma, which is named after the Swiss ophthalmologist Alfred Vogt. His two-volume Handbuch der Therapie der Nervenkrankheiten ("Handbook on the Treatment of Nervous Diseases") was published in 1916.

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