Albrecht Stammler (neurologist)

Albrecht Stammler (born January 19, 1918 in Hamburg ; † March 16, 2009 in Frechen ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist , full professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne .

Life

Stammler attended high school as the son of a surgeon in Hamburg and studied medicine in Würzburg , Munich and Greifswald from 1939 to 1944 . During the Second World War he had to interrupt his studies and his medical training for labor and military service. After his release from prisoner-of-war he was able to continue his medical career and received his doctorate with a thesis on "A case of a circumscribed hypochondria". From 1948 he started training as a neurologist under Werner Scheid in Hamburg-Heidberg . From 1950 to 1951 he received training in neuropathology at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Giessen with Julius Hallervorden .

In 1951 Stammler came to Cologne with Werner Scheid , where Scheid had accepted the call to the chair of neurology. They found a burned-out and largely destroyed building. During the years of construction, both of them worked together to rebuild the clinic and refurbish it. The Habilitation for the subject of neurology and psychiatry took place in 1956, the following year he was appointed as senior physician at the mental hospital.

In 1968 a second chair for neurology was established, to which Albrecht Stammler was appointed. From this time on, the Cologne University Mental Hospital was run in a collegial style by both directors. Since the clinic represented both neurology and psychiatry until 1985, Stammler was always linked to both subjects. From 1970 a laboratory house for the neuropsychiatric research department was built, in which Stammler played an essential part.

After Werner Scheid retired in 1979, Uwe Henrik Peters , a distinguished psychiatrist, was appointed to the chair for neurology, and the clinic began to differentiate itself into a neurological and a psychiatric area. The Cologne Neurological Clinic was until then the last joint neurological-psychiatric university clinic in Germany.

In 1983 Albrecht Stammler retired.

Albrecht Stammler's scientific work was primarily linked to neuropathology. In addition to classic brain pathology, he has also dealt with muscle and nerve pathology. His scientific work includes more than 150 articles that deal with topics such as neuropathology, infectious diseases of the nervous system, systemic degenerations and physically justifiable psychoses . He was co-author of Werner Scheid's textbook on neurology, which for many years was one of the standard works in German-speaking neurology.

From 1971 to 1972 Stammler was dean of the medical faculty at the University of Cologne. In his free time he was engaged in classical music and played the flute himself.

source

• “Forum neurologicum” of the German Society for Neurology, June 2009