Heinrich Lissauer

Heinrich Lissauer (born September 12, 1861 in Neidenburg , † September 21, 1891 in Hallstatt ) was a German neurologist .

Spinal cord cross section. The Lissauer tract is labeled as Lissauer's fasciculus at the top left .

Heinrich Lissauer was the son of the German doctor and archaeologist of Jewish origin Abraham Lissauer . He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. He was assistant to Carl Wernicke at the psychiatric clinic in Breslau , where he also did his habilitation. In 1885 he first described a system of fine nerve fibers that extends over the entire spinal cord . This tractus posteriolateralis conducts pain stimuli and is also called the Lissauer tract after it .

Lissauer died at the age of only 30 during a trip to Hallstatt in Upper Austria.

Works

Contribution to the fiber course in the dorsal horn of the human spinal cord and the behavior of the same in Tabes Dorsalis
A case of soul blindness, along with a contribution to the theory of the same . In: Archives for Psychiatry and. Nervenkrankheiten , Vol. 21 (1890), pp. 222-270.
Changes in the sacrum with progressive paralysis . In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift , vol. 16 (1890).

Individual evidence

^ Theodor H. Schiebler, Horst-W. Korf: Anatomy: histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy, topography . 10th edition. Springer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7985-1771-4 , pp. 819 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lissauer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neidenburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 21, 1891
Place of death	Hallstatt

[1] Theodor H. Schiebler, Horst-W. Korf: Anatomy: histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy, topography . 10th edition. Springer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7985-1771-4 , pp. 819 .