Alexander Carl Otto Westphal

Alexander Carl Otto Westphal ( born May 18, 1863 in Berlin, † January 9, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.

Alexander Westphal was the son of the psychiatrist Carl Westphal (1833-1890) and his wife Clara Mendelssohn. His grandfather Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal was also a doctor.

Westphal studied in Heidelberg and Berlin, and in 1888 made ​​his doctorate in Berlin. He was assistant in Heidelberg by Wilhelm Erb (1840-1921) and in Leipzig by Heinrich Curschmann ( 1846-1910 ). In 1892 he became head of the department for nervous diseases at the Berlin Charité, his boss was Friedrich Jolly ( 1844-1904 ). He continued his education in psychiatry and neurology. In 1902 he became a lecturer at the University of Greifswald and two years later a full professor at the University of Bonn. From 1904 to 1929 he was Head of the Provincial Hospital and nursing home Bonn, 1905 Royal University Hospital for Mental and nervous patients. In his tenure, the previously valid marriage ban and the " output" for the nursing staff were relaxed; Nurses were given separate bedrooms.

Alexander Westphal published primarily to the areas of diabetes insipidus, leukemia and pseudo- leukemia as well as to various fields of psychiatry and neurology. His name is connected with the Westphal - Piltz phenomenon of the lids, whose second name to the Polish neurologist January Piltz (1870-1931) is.

Westphal has also produced a complete edition of the scientific publications of his father Carl Westphal. As a university teacher, he later formed from well-known scientists, including the psychiatrist Otto Löwenstein.