Walther Spielmeyer

Walther Game Meyer ( born April 23, 1879 in Dessau, † 6 February 1935 Munich) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Spielmeyer studied with Eduard Hitzig in Halle. In 1906 he was a lecturer in Freiburg, where he worked under Alfred Hoche.

At the suggestion of Emil Kraepelin he succeeded Alois Alzheimer as head of the Anatomical Laboratory of Psychiatric and Mental Hospital in Munich. In 1913 he became Associate Professor in 1917 and Head of Histology Department at the newly erected " German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ) ". With Franz Nissl he had a good working relationship.

Works

• The Trypanosomenkrankheiten and its relations with the Syphilogenic nervous diseases. Jena, Fischer, 1908.
• Microscopic examination technique of the nervous system. Berlin, Springer, 1911; 4th Edition, 1930.
• The progressive paralysis. In: Handbook of Neurology, Vol 3; Berlin, 1912.
• The clinic and anatomy of nerve - shot wounds. Berlin, Springer, 1915.
• Histopathology of the nervous system. Volume One: General section. Berlin, J. Springer, 1922.
• Degeneration and regeneration in the peripheral nerve. Handbook of normal and pathological physiology, Vol 3; Berlin, 1929.
• The anatomy of psychoses. Manual of Mental Diseases, Vol 11; Berlin, 1930.