Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt

Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt ( born April 1, 1927 in Berlin, † January 23, 1992 ) was a German neurophysiologist. He was the youngest son of neurologists Hans -Gerhard Creutzfeldt, a brother of internists Werner Creutzfeldt (1924-2006) and a grandson of Werner Sombart.

Life

Creutzfeldt studied medicine at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1953 under Richard Jung on a theme from the field of neurophysiology. In 1962 he was assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, beginning in 1965, he was Director of the Department of Neurophysiology there. From 1971, he was, until his death in 1992, Director of the Department of Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.

Creutzfeldt has trained a number of significant neurobiologists, including the later Nobel laureate Bert Sakmann and the Max Planck Directors Wolf Singer and Heinz Wässle. Creutzfeldt 1990 was awarded the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize and in 1992 with the Zülch price.

Works

• Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt: cerebral cortex. Springer 1983, ISBN 3-540-12193-5