Heinrich Klüver

Heinrich Klüver ( born May 25, 1897 in Holstein, † February 8, 1979 in Illinois ) was a German -American neuroscientist.

Klüver studied after military service for the German Reich during World War I 1920-1923 psychology at the Universities of Hamburg and Berlin, then moved to Stanford University. In 1927 he settled permanently in the United States and married there Cessa Feyerabend, 1934 he became an American citizen. Since 1928 he worked in Chicago with Karl Spencer Lashley and was a professor of biological psychology. In 1936 he succeeded in an animal model to demonstrate that the removal of both occipital lobes leads to cortical blindness, in the removal of the temporal lobes, however, the ability to interpret what is seen disappears. This phenomenon is called after him and Paul Bucy as Klüver- Bucy syndrome. Klüver also developed a staining method for representing the myelin sheaths. Other areas of research related to the control of behavior in primates.

• Psychologist
• Neurophysiologist
• German
• Americans
• Born 1897
• Died in 1979
• Man