Alexander Westphal (medical doctor)
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (born May 18, 1863 in Berlin ; † January 9, 1941 in Bonn ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist .
Alexander Westphal was the son of the psychiatrist Carl Westphal (1833-1890) and his wife Clara Mendelssohn, a daughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn . His grandfather Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800–1879) was also a doctor.
Westphal studied in Heidelberg and Berlin , and made his doctorate in Berlin in 1888. He was in Heidelberg assistant to Wilhelm Erb (1840-1921) and in Leipzig Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910). In 1892 he became head of the department for nervous diseases at the Berlin Charité , his boss was Friedrich Jolly (1844-1904). He continued his education in psychiatry and neurology. In 1901 he became a professor at the University of Greifswald and two years later a full professor at the University of Bonn . From 1904 to 1929 he was the director of the Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Institution in Bonn , and from 1905 the Royal University Clinic for the Mentally Ill and Nervous . During his term of office, the marriage ban and the "exit" for the nursing staff were relaxed; Sisters and carers were given their own bedrooms.
Alexander Westphal published primarily on the areas of diabetes insipidus , leukemia and pseudoleukemia as well as on various areas of psychiatry and neurology . His name is associated with the Westphal-Piltz phenomenon of the eyelids , the second namesake of which is the Polish neurologist Jan Piltz (1870–1931).
Westphal also produced a complete edition of his father Carl Westphal's scientific publications. As a university professor, he later trained well-known scientists, including the psychiatrist Otto Löwenstein .
He is buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church Cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ LVR Clinic Bonn - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Westphal Pilcz sign. Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ^ H. Stanley Thompson: Otto Lowenstein, pioneer pupillographer . In: Journal of neuro-ophthalmology: the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society . tape 25 , no. 1 , March 2005, p. 44-49 , PMID 15756134 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Westphal, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westphal, Alexander Carl Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurologist and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1941 |
| Place of death | Bonn |