Franz Nissl
Franz Nissl ( born September 9, 1860 in Frankenthal (Pfalz ); † August 11, 1919 in Munich) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.
Career
After studying medicine and doctorate in 1885 Nissl began his psychiatric training as an assistant in Munich with Bernard of Gudden, the personal physician of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who perished with the von Gudden 1886 or on Lake Starnberg. From 1889 Nissl was senior physician Alois Alzheimer in Frankfurt, but moved in 1895 to Heidelberg at Emil Kraepelin at the Psychiatric University Hospital, where he should then be for 23 years.
In 1896 he habilitated at Kraepelin, 1901 was appointed associate professor in 1904 and Kraepelin's indirect successor as director of the world now famous clinic after the first appointed Karl Bonhoeffer had abandoned the hospital management after a few months. Nissl -operation in Heidelberg was characterized above all by happy staff decisions, from which protrudes for Karl Jaspers. Due to illness Nissl gave in 1918 to his chair and was until his death shortly department head, which was founded in Munich by Emil Kraepelin German Institute for Psychiatric Research (Kaiser -Wilhelm- Institut), now the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich.
Became known Nissl through his brain histopathological studies due in 1894 he discovered Nissl bodies and by Nissl staining.
Effect
As a full professor at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg doctorate or habilitation Nissl include the following personalities:
- Karl Wilmann: 1906 Habilitation with a already begun under Kraepelin study Psychopathology tramp - 1918 Wilmann Nissl 's successor;
- Karl Jaspers: Promotion on December 8, 1908, his dissertation on nostalgia and crime - 1913 he habilitated with Nissl's help and that of Max Weber with his well-known, developed during his time as a volunteer doctor in Nissl general psychopathology of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts, where he in 1921 in the wake of Wilhelm diaper tape a chair of philosophy received;
- Otto Meyerhof: PhD in December 1909 with the III.Teil: The psychology of the delusion of his fundamental theoretical contributions to the psychological theory of mental disorders. - Thirteen years later Meyerhof received for his pioneering work on the biochemistry of cell metabolism the Nobel Prize for medicine, without ever abandoning his philosophical interests, which he described as a friend of the philosopher Leonard Nelson and his fellow students
- Arthur Kronfeld told, the Nissl almost the same time on December 7, 1909, a contribution to the study of the Wassermann reaction and its diagnostic application in psychiatry. I. Methodology and Theory of reaction doctorate and then from 1910-1913 initially employed as a volunteer doctor as an assistant and then as Jaspers - 1912 worked Kronfeld at his clinic the first systematic overall presentation and ( by so he already called ) " scientific theory " Investigation of psychological theories of Freud and related notions;
- Hans Walter Gruhle: Habilitation of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology with a thesis on perceptual distortions on March 3, 1913 - received his PhD Gruhle, who worked for Nissl since 5 May 1905, with a 1904 there began in January 1907 at the University of Munich with Emil Kraepelin work on occupational graphical studies.