Karl Fürstner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German neurologist and psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Strasburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Karl Fürstner
- Karl Fürstner (June 7, 1848 - April 25, 1906) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Strasburg, Uckermark. He studied medicine in Würzburg and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1871.
- In 1872 he was an assistant at the pathological institute of the University of Greifswald, and afterwards worked under Karl Westphal (1833-1890) in the psychiatric department at the Berlin-Charité. In 1878 he became the first physician to hold the chair of psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg.
- He kept this position until 1890, when he became professor of nervous and mental diseases at the University of Strasbourg.
- At Heidelberg his vacancy was filled by Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926).
- Among Fürstner's better known assistants was eugenicist Alfred Hoche (1865-1943). Fürstner specialized in the fields of neuropathology and neuroanatomy.
- His work involved studies of progressive paralysis, the localization of brain tumors, and research of disorders that included postpartum psychosis, gliosis of the cerebral cortex and hemorrhagic pachymeningitis.
- Among his written works was his graduate thesis, Zur Streitfrage über das Othaematom, of which he discusses "othematoma" (hematoma of the outer ear).
- This condition was once believed by some doctors to be linked to brain disorders.
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