Alfred Bannwarth

Alfred Bannwarth (born January 23, 1903 , † 1970 ) was a German neurologist . The Bannwarth Syndrome was named after him. This is a manifestation of Lyme borreliosis .

Life

After studying music, Bannwarth studied medicine and in 1930, after defending his dissertation on a case of isolated obturating arteriosclerosis of an internal carotid as an example of the differential diagnostic difficulties in the diagnosis of arteriosclerosis cerebri at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, was awarded a doctorate. med. PhD . After receiving his doctorate, he first worked as an assistant doctor in Hamburg under Max Nonne and from 1933 in Munich under Oswald Bumke . In Munich, Bannwarth did research on the diagnosis of brain tumors and he was responsible for setting up X-ray diagnostics. 1938Bannwarth completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the pathology of brain tumors , but was not given a lectureship because he was not a member of the NSDAP . Bannwarth did not join the NSDAP until 1940. In 1941 he published a 92-page work in which he dealt in detail with the symptoms of the Bannwarth syndrome , which was later named after him . He published another work on the subject in 1944.

Bannwarth was a military doctor in 1945 and after the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans until June 1946. He was classified in the group of the exonerated as part of the denazification . From 1949 he resumed his work in the psychiatric clinic at the University Hospital in Munich and in 1950 became an associate professor . From 1955 Bannwarth became head of the newly established neurological department at the hospital on the right of the Isar . In 1970 Bannwarth died.

Publications

• Alfred Bannwarth: The cells of the cerebrospinal fluid. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 100, 1933, pp. 533-573, doi : 10.1007 / BF01814757 .
• Alfred Bannwarth: On the pathology of the brain tumor. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 104, 1936, pp. 292-343, doi : 10.1007 / BF01814231 .
• Alfred Bannwarth: About the evidence of brain malformations through the X-ray image and about its clinical significance. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 109, 1939, pp. 805-838, doi : 10.1007 / BF02040584 .
• Alfred Bannwarth: Chronic lymphocytic meningitis, inflammatory polyneuritis and rheumatism. In: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, Berlin, 1941, 113, 284–376, doi : 10.1007 / BF02095652 .
• Alfred Bannwarth: The inflammatory polyneuritis with the CSF syndrome by Guillain and Barré (polyradiculitis) in the context of a biological examination of the disease. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 115, 1943, pp. 566-672, doi : 10.1007 / BF01814912 .
• Alfred Bannwarth: On the clinic and pathogenesis of "chronic lymphocytic meningitis" In: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, Berlin, 1944, 117: 161-185, 682-716, doi : 10.1007 / BF01837869 .

literature

• H. Hippius, H -J Maller, Norbert Müller, G. Neundörfer: The Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich 1904-2004. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-64530-6 , pp. 119-120.
• Peter Reuter: Springer Lexicon Medicine. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20412-1 , p. 233.