Eduard Hitzig

Julius Eduard Hitzig ( born February 6, 1838 in Berlin, † 20 August 1907 in Luisenheim to St. Blaise ) was a German psychiatrist and neurophysiologist.

Life

Hitzig began with the study of law, but soon turned to the study of medicine. He studied in Berlin and Würzburg, inter alia, under Emil Du Bois -Reymond, Rudolf Virchow, Moritz Heinrich Romberg and Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal. In 1862 he earned his MD He worked as a physician in private practice in Berlin and Würzburg. 1872 and his habilitation in Berlin in internal medicine and psychiatry.

1875 Hitzig director of the asylum Burgholzli and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich. In 1879 he was appointed as Director of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic and professor of psychiatry to Halle.

Hitzig introduced in 1870 along with Gustav Theodor Fritsch experiments for electrical stimulation of the brain in dogs. Her acclaimed work was the first evidence that individual functions are localized in the cerebral cortex in concrete locations.

Hitzig was a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg ( 1859) and Neoborussia Berlin ( 1860).

Family

Hitzig married the niece of Leopold von Ranke Henrietta ( Etta ) Ranke ( 1843-1939 ).

The family grave is located on the Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery in Berlin -Mitte, Chausseestraße. There, his father and brother are buried.

Works

  • ( with Gustav Fritsch ) On the electrical excitability of the cerebrum. In: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and scientific medicine. 1870, pp. 300-332 (online).
  • Studies on the Brain: Essays physiological and pathological content. Hirschwald, Berlin 1874 ( online).
  • About the Quärulantenwahnsinn, its nosological position and its forensic significance: A Treatise for doctors and lawyers. Vogel, Leipzig 1895.
  • Hughlings Jackson and the cortical motor centers in the light of physiological research. Read the Neurological Society of London 29 November 1900. Hirschwald, Berlin 1901 ( online).
  • Physiological and clinical studies on the brain. Collected Essays. Hirschwald, Berlin 1904 ( online).
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