Max Bielschowsky

Max Bielschowsky ( born February 19, 1869 in Breslau, † August 15 1940 in Hendon, London ) was a German neuropathologist.

Bielschowsky studied in Breslau, Berlin and Munich Medicine, where he received his doctorate in 1893. After that he worked at the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology. From 1896 to 1904 he worked at Emanuel Mendel in Berlin and subsequently to 1933, Oskar Vogt in the field of neurobiology. After working in Utrecht (1934 ) and Madrid ( 1935) Bielschowsky 1936 returned back to Berlin. In 1939 he went to London, where he died a year later of a stroke.

Bielschowsky is known for his work for tuberous sclerosis, about blindness, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and myotonia congenita Thomsen. According to him the Jansky - Bielschowsky disease ( see Batten disease ) is named.

The Bielschowsky staining is a staining method in histology. This historically important Versilberungstechnik neurons and senile plaques and fibrillary deposits in Alzheimer 's disease can be displayed.

Works

  • The silver impregnation of the axis cylinder. In: Neurological Zentralblatt. Leipzig, 1902, Volume 21, pp. 579-84 and Neurological Zentralblatt. Leipzig, 1903, Volume 22, pp. 997-1006
  • General Histology and histopathology of the nervous system. In: Max Lewandowsky (Eds. ): Handbook of Neurology. Volume 1, Berlin 1910.
  • Herpes zoster. In: Max Lewandowsky (Eds. ): Handbook of Neurology. Volume 5, Berlin 1910.
  • About late infantile amaurotic familial idiocy with cerebellar symptoms. In: German Journal of Neurology. 1914, Volume 50, pp. 7-29
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