Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFriedrich Christoph Pelizaeus
German neurologist
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Rietberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus
- Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus (3 April 1851 – 11 August 1942) was a German balneologist and neurologist who was a native of Rietberg. In 1874 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Würzburg, and afterwards served as an assistant to Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Runge (1835-1882) at the resort in Nassau an der Lahn.
- Later he worked as a balneologist at Ilmenau, Kreischa and Bad Oeynhausen.
- In 1896 he received the title of Sanitätsrat (health advisor).
- Pelizaeus died in Kassel on 11 August 1942. In 1885 he provided the first description of a dysmyelinating central nervous system disorder that was to become known as "Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease", named in conjunction with neuropathologist Ludwig Merzbacher (1875–1942).
Read more at Wikipedia