Paul Robert Bing
Paul Robert Bing ( born May 8, 1878 in Strasbourg, † 14-15 March 1956 in Basel. ) Was a German -Swiss neurologist.
Life
The father of Robert Bing, Bing Berthold, came from Bavaria, moved his residence later to Strasbourg and moved to Basel with the family in 1888. His mother, Valerie Guggenheim, came from Lengnau in Switzerland ( Aargau ). Bing's family was Jewish.
Robert Bing was born on 8 May 1878 in Strasbourg and started school there. He visited his parents there until moving to Basel for a year the Protestant Gymnasium. In Basel, Bing was then students at the grammar school and was there in 1896 his matriculation examination. He was regarded as a linguist. Then he began his medical studies in Basel, he in 1901, so only 23 years old and graduated with a state exam. Upon graduation, he was trained in Basel in pathological anatomy and internal medicine. In the years 1902-1905 he continued his education abroad.
He was never married and lived with his mother for whom he cared. He died on the night of 14th/15th. March 1956 at the age of 77 years.
Services
Bing began his medical studies in Basel in 1896 and closed it in 1901 there with the state exam. In the meantime, he spent a semester in Strasbourg. After graduating in Basel Bing wrote a dissertation entitled " About innate Muskeldefecte " and thereupon received his doctoral degree on November 30, 1902. Stations duties were working together with the brain physiologist Hermann Munk ( 1839-1912 ) in Berlin, the neuropathologist Ludwig Edinger in Frankfurt am Main, the neurosurgeon Victor Horsley in London and Joseph Jules Dejerine clinicians and Joseph Babinski in Paris.
1905 Bing returned back to Basel. There he settled down as a neurologist. Two years later he received his habilitation with Scripture "significance of the spinocerebellar system ". The habilitation was on March 21, 1907. During the same year he founded together with Emil Villiger ( 1870-1931 ) in Basel a " nervous clinic ", which was there until 1954, in which he held office hours. This was after a foundation by Constantin von Monakow in 1887 one of the first institutions of this kind, the first in Basel. The private mental clinic Bing was officially incorporated in 1916, the Medical University Polyclinic.
Soon after his habilitation thesis Bing published a number of highly regarded books, which are excerpts listed here among the variety of his writings. The Compendium of topical brain and spinal cord diagnostics experienced until 1953 played 14 runs. His works have been translated into many languages.
On February 2, 1918 Bing was appointed associate professor, on 12 April 1932 Ordinary. In 1932 he was also elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. A lecturer in neurology he received on 23 July 1937. These he practiced until his resignation on September 30, 1948. He left a foundation with the provisions of a regularly awarded prize to "Authors outstanding works which detection, treatment and cure of nervous diseases have promoted ". This Bing Prize is awarded by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. The name of Paul Bing is preserved in the name of the Bing - Horton neuralgia. Bing is one of the precursors and pioneers of topistischen brain research. In this context, the finding is to be understood that Bing has led a fight for the independence of Neurology, see also → localization in neurology. The neurologist Marco Mumenthaler has written to a separate treatise.
Writings
Selection:
- About innate Muskeldefecte. Archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine. 1902; 170:175-228.
- Compendium of topical brain and spinal diagnostics. Berlin, Vienna: Urban and Schwarzenberg; , 1909.
- Textbook of nervous diseases. Berlin, Vienna: Urban and Schwarzenberg; In 1913.
- Together with R. Brückner: brain and eye. 3rd edition. Basel: Benno Schwabe; In 1954.
Secondary literature
- Mumenthaler, M.: The neurology in the formation of the Swiss physician. Arch Neurol Psychiatr Switzerland. 2008; 159:265-6.
- Veraguth, O.: The neurological teaching at Swiss universities. Correspondenzblatt for Swiss doctors. 1911; 20:696-708.
- Haymaker, W.: Paul Robert Bing, 1878-1956. AMA Arch Neurol Psychiatry 1956; 76:508-10.