Ludwig Bruns

Ludwig Bruns ( born June 25, 1858 in Hannover, † November 9, 1916 ) was a German neurologist.

Life

Born the son of an insurance director Ludwig Bruns was at the age of twelve orphan. Only through the support of his relatives, he was able to continue attending the school. After leaving school he entered the University of Göttingen to study medicine. In 1878 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera .. After graduating in Göttingen, he went to Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1882 for Dr. med. After two years in ophthalmology to Bruns turned to neurology and became first assistant at the provincial mental hospital in Nietleben and the newly established psychiatric and mental hospital in Halle under Eduard Hitzig. He subsequently worked at the Berlin Charité Karl Westphal and Hermann Oppenheim, in Paris at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière by Jean- Martin Charcot and in England he settled in his hometown of Hanover neurologist down. 1903 he was appointed professor. He was Chairman of the Medical Association of the Province of Hanover. 1907 Bruns was co-founder of the Society of German Neurologists and its first director.

Ludwig Bruns ' scientific interests all aspects of neurology. He gained particular notoriety for his work in the field of children's Euro Logie and neuropsychology. Since 1887 he worked at the Central Neurological sheet and since 1890 at Schmidt's yearbooks. He also worked at Albert Eulenburg 's Real - encyclopedia with the whole healing, Twentieth Century Practice of Medicine ( New York), the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift and the German Journal of Neurology.

Awards

The following medical eponyms go back to Ludwig Bruns:

  • Bruns ataxia
  • Bruns nystagmus
  • Called Bruns syndrome, also Nothnagel syndrome
  • Bastian - Bruns- law

For the organization of a neurological consultation service for the German army Bruns in 1916 awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. In his honor, was named in Hanover, Ludwig Bruns Road.

Writings

  • Comparative anatomical studies of the vascular system of the retina, 1882
  • Recent work on the traumatic neuroses, 1894
  • Clinical experience of the functions of the cerebellum, 1896
  • About some of the most difficult and practically important differential diagnostic questions in relation to the localizations of brain tumors, 1897
  • The tumors of the nervous system - brain tumors - A clinical study, 1897
  • Oversoul paralysis, 1897
  • The traumatic neuroses - Accident neurosis, 1901
  • Hysteria in childhood, 1906
  • Tumours of the Nervous System, 1908
  • Epilepsia, 1910 (along with Henri Claude )
  • Manual of nervous diseases in childhood, in 1912 (along with August Cramer and Theodor drawing)
  • War Neurological observations and reflections, 1915
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