Constantin von Monakow

Constantin von Monakow ( 4 * November 1853 on the estate Bobrezewo, Vologda Governorate, † 19 October 1930 in Zurich ) was a Russian- Swiss neurologist and neuropathologist.

Life

Constantin von Monakow emigrated in 1863 with his father, a landowner and lawyers, for political reasons, to Dresden. 1866 they moved to Upper rhinestones, in 1868 he was naturalized. He finished high school and studied medicine from 1872 to 1877 at the University of Zurich. In 1876 he was a teaching assistant at Eduard Hitzig at the Psychiatric Burghölzli. From 1878 to 1885 Monakow worked as an assistant doctor at the hospital St. Pirminsberg. In 1880 he received his doctorate at the University of Zurich.

In 1885 he opened a practice in Zurich and was qualified as first in Switzerland for neurology and neuroanatomy. The following year he opened with its own funds a neurological clinic and a brain anatomical laboratory. 1894 he has been appointed as Associate Professor University of Zurich. In 1910 he donated his clinic and his lab the Canton of Zurich, but both ran until 1927 on.

In 1909 he founded the Swiss Neurological Society with Paul Dubois. In 1917 he founded the Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, whose editor he was, until his death in 1930.

Monakow coined the term diaschisis. The Monakow bundle is named after him.

Writings (selection )

  • Contribution to the localization of cortical tumors. In: Archives of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. Vol 11, H. 3 ( October 1881 ), pp. 613-635, doi: 10.1007/BF01796317 (Dissertation, University of Zurich, 1881).
  • Brain pathology. Hölder, Vienna 1897; Second, completely reworked and increased Aufl edition 1905.
  • The red nucleus, the hood and the hypothalamic regions in some mammals and man: Comparative anatomical, normal anatomical, experimental and patholologisch anatomical investigation. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1910.
  • About localization of brain function. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1910.
  • Structure and localization of movements in humans. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1911.
  • Ed. with Gennosuke Fuse: microscopic atlas of the human brain. Orell Füssli, Zurich, 1916.
  • Sense, civilization and brain. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1916.
  • With Raoul Mourgue: Biological Introduction to the study of neurology and psychopathology. Hippocrates, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Brain and belief: psychobiological essays ( = knowledge and life vol 4. ). With a biographical introduction by Mieczyslaw Minkowski. Conzett and Huber, Zurich 1950.
  • Vita mea - my life. Edited by Alfred W. Gubser and Erwin H. plowman. Huber, Bern 1970.
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