Adolf Wallenberg

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Adolf Wallenberg (born November 10, 1862 in Preußisch Stargard , † April 10, 1949 in Manteno , Illinois ) was a German internist and neurologist .

Life

Adolf Wallenberg was born on November 10, 1862 as the eldest son of the district doctor Samuel Wallenberg in what was then Prussian-Stargard in West Prussia, near Danzig . His father, the son of a rabbi, died of typhus in 1868. Adolf Wallenberg and his three brothers were raised by their mother and, in addition to academic training, also received musical lessons. Wallenberg learned the violin and played this instrument well into old age.

After Baccalaureate (as Primus Omnium ) in Gdansk, studied Wallenberg medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and the University of Leipzig , where he in 1886 with a dissertation on cerebral palsy doctorate . He began his medical practice in Gdansk and was employed as an assistant and prosector in the city hospital until 1888 . In 1888 he opened a general medical practice in Gdansk. In 1891 Wallenberg suffered a fracture of the base of the skull , resulting in a complete loss of sense of smell. Two years later he examined a man who, as a result of a violent attack of dizziness, presented unilateral cranial nerve symptoms along with unilateral cerebellar ataxia and crossed sensory disturbances on the face and body for pain and temperature. On the basis of his anatomical knowledge, Wallenberg diagnosed an infarction in the medulla oblongata in the supply area of ​​the posterior lower cerebellar artery . Five years later, the patient died of a second stroke , and Wallenberg was able to prove at the autopsy that his clinical diagnosis had been accurate. This clinical picture is known to this day as Wallenberg syndrome .

In 1907 Wallenberg was appointed head of the internal and psychiatric department of the Gdańsk City Hospital. In 1912 he spent some time in Berlin to learn new research methods at the Robert Koch Institute . During the First World War Wallenberg was appointed Consultant Physician of the 17th Army Corps. In 1928 he gave up his position as chief physician after he had reached the age limit. He continued his scientific work in a laboratory at the hospital. In recognition of his research he was awarded the Wilhelm-Erb commemorative coin in 1929. Because the Hitler regime came to power in Danzig, Wallenberg was forced to end his medical career in 1938. He managed to get on the last train two days before the German invasion of Danzig and to flee to England via the Netherlands. In 1943, Wallenberg and his wife received an American visa and went to the United States. Wallenberg spent the last years of his life in a town about 75 km from Chicago.

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Wallenberg has published numerous papers mainly on anatomy and neurophysiology . During his collaboration with Ludwig Edinger , Wallenberg studied the birds' brains and the role of the olfactory system in recognizing and ingesting food. In 1900 and 1902 he set up advanced training courses for West Prussian doctors and received the title of professor in 1910.

Wallenberg was the editor of the annual reports on the achievements in the field of anatomy of the central nervous system .

The German Society for Neurology (DGN) has been awarding the Adolf Wallenberg Prize, endowed with 5000 euros, for “outstanding research achievements in the field of cerebrovascular diseases, cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism” to German and foreign doctors under 40 years of age.

Fonts

  • Acute bulbar infection (embolism of the art. Cerebellar. Post. Inf. Sinistra?) . Arch. Psychiat. Nervenkr., 27 , (1895).
  • Anatomical findings in a case described as "acute bulbar affection (embolism of the art. Cerebellar. Post. Inf. Sinistr.?)" . Arch. Psych. Nervenkrankh., 34, (1901).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Awards of the DGN: Adolf Wallenberg Prize at the German Society for Neurology (dgn.org); accessed on October 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wallenberg, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Stargard
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1949
Place of death Manteno , Illinois