Albrecht Struppler

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Albrecht Struppler (born March 7, 1919 in Munich ; † June 20, 2009 in Tutzing ) was a German neurologist . He was a full professor and director of the Department of Neurology at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Albrecht Struppler grew up in the Munich area, graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1937 and studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After graduating, he began his training with Gustav von Bergmann and Gustav Bodechtel in Munich and completed his habilitation in 1954 on the pathophysiology of myasthenia . After a short time as senior physician with Alfred Bannwarth , he rejoined Gustav Bodechtel in 1963 for research at the Friedrich Baur Foundation in Munich. In 1968 he was appointed to the first chair for neurology at the Technical University in Munich. He was director of this clinic until his retirement in 1989.

Albrecht Struppler was one of the first German neurologists to go abroad for research after the Second World War . He sat in with Yngve Zottermann in Stockholm and with Fritz Buchthal in Copenhagen and became one of the pioneers of the electromyogram in Germany. During a stay in Boston with Raymond D. Adams he experimented with questions of motor control. This scientific topic shaped his entire professional life. After staying with Traugott Riechert in Freiburg and Hans Kuhlendahl in Düsseldorf , he received approval to independently perform functional stereotaxic surgery for the treatment of central movement disorders. In 1953, together with Thure von Uexküll, the first German doctor to use the preparation apomorphine in the treatment of resting tremors in Parkinson's patients .

His scientific way of working was characterized by the fact that he recognized new diagnostic and therapeutic developments and specifically recruited employees for them. He was one of the first neurologists in Germany to bridge the gap to medical technology . He founded physiologically oriented special research areas such as the research group for sensorimotor integration. For a long time he was a reviewer for the German Research Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 1971 to 1972 he was President of the German EEG Society (today's DGKN) and its honorary member. In 1976 he received the Hans Berger Prize of the DGKN. He was also a member of the German Society for Neurology and an honorary member of the German Parkinson Society .

After his retirement, his scientific work was recognized by being accepted into the Institute of Advanced Sciences (Emeriti of Excellence, Technical University of Munich) and honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

literature

  • Forum neurologicum of the German Society for Neurology. In: Acta Neurologica. 36, 2009, pp. 476-477.
  • TR Toelle: Albrecht Struppler passed away. In: The pain. 23, 2009, pp. 567-568, doi: 10.1007 / s00482-009-0859-5 .
  • R. Dengler: Obituary: Professor Albrecht Struppler. In: Clinical Neurophysiology. 40, 2009, pp. 209-209, doi: 10.1055 / s-0029-1220448 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1936/37
personal data
SURNAME Struppler, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2009
Place of death Tutzing , Starnberg district