Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer

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Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer

Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer (born April 18, 1872 in Stuttgart , † November 30, 1917 in Wiesbaden ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Life

Seiffer attended high school in Ulm . After the Matura examination (1890) he studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1895. med. PhD. In the same year he went to Berlin and worked as an assistant at a private mental hospital in Pankow . From 1896 he was assistant to Julius Eduard Hitzig at the psychiatric clinic in Halle (Saale) , from 1899 then assistant (later senior physician) at the psychiatric clinic of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in the Kgl. Charité under Friedrich Jolly , after his death in 1904 under Theodor Draw . After his habilitation in 1901, he also taught as a private lecturer at Berlin University. In 1906 he became adjunct professor there . He died in Wiesbaden on November 30, 1917.

The Rydel-Seiffersche tuning fork

The Rydel-und-Seiffer vibration fork, named after Adam Rydel and Seiffer, for testing vibration sensitivity is still in use today. The instrument was proposed in a publication by the two authors from 1903.

Works

  • Disorders of the organ of vision caused by diseases of the frontal sinuses. Inaugural dissertation of the medical faculty of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg to obtain the doctorate . Göller, Strasbourg i. E. 1895
  • (as editor and translator) Henry Head : The skin sensitivity disorders in visceral diseases . August Hirschwald, Berlin 1898 (Foreword by Prof. Julius Eduard Hitzig) = German version of: On the disturbances of sensation, with special reference to the pain of visceral disease . Oxford, 1893
  • Spinal sensitivity scheme for segment diagnosis of spinal cord diseases for drawing in the findings at the bedside . August Hirschwald, Berlin 1901 (4th edition 1917)
  • Atlas and outline of the general diagnosis and therapy of nervous diseases . Lehmann, Munich, 1902 (Lehmann's medicinische Handatlanten, Vol. 29.) Foreword by Prof. Friedrich Jolly
    • an Italian translation appeared in 1904 ( Atlante… delle malattie nervose )
  • (with A. Rydel) Investigations into the feeling of vibration or the so-called "bone sensitivity" (pallesthesia) . In: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases , 37 (1903), pp. 487-536.
  • About the tumors of the cerebellum and the posterior fossa . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1907 ( Medical Clinic 3.1)

literature

  • Emil Joseph Lehmacher and Michael Berger: The history of the Rydel-Seifferschen tuning fork . Kirchheim, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-87409-059-0 (Diss. University of Düsseldorf, 1992)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin clinical weekly publication 54, p. 1212, 1917
personal data
SURNAME Seiffer, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1917
Place of death Wiesbaden