Herbert Reisner

Herbert Reisner (born December 1, 1912 in Vienna ; † March 30, 1982 ibid) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist .

Life

After completing his medical studies at the University of Vienna on July 18, 1938, Reisner completed his specialist training under Otto Pötzl at the Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic. From 1942 clinical assistant, he was called up for military service in May 1943 and worked for one year with Viktor von Weizsäcker at the Otfried Förster Institute, at that time a brain-injured hospital, in Breslau. After the end of the Second World War, Reisner continued his work at the Vienna Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic from August 1945, now under the direction of Otto Kauders. In 1949 he completed his habilitation as the clinic's first assistant for the specialist field of neurology and psychiatry and, in 1949/50 , he was in charge of the clinic.

In 1951 he moved to the Rothschild Foundation of the Neurological Hospital of the City of Vienna-Rosenhügel as Medical Director , which was renamed the Neurological Hospital of the City of Vienna-Rosenhügel in 1966. Reisner worked at this institution for 17 years and was one of the formative personalities in Austrian neurology during the post-war and reconstruction period. 1958 Reisner became an associate . Univ. Appointed Professor of Forensic Psychiatry .

From July 1968 o. Univ. Professor and Head of the Psychiatric-Neurological Univ. Clinic Graz. From September 1971, Reisner took over as full professor and board member of the first independent neurological university clinic in Austria, which he managed until his death in 1982.

Act

Reisner's areas of work have spanned the entire clinical neurology and some essential areas of psychiatry in over 300 publications. Most of Reisner's work has dealt with the cerebrovascular disease , the stroke . A pioneering milestone in Reisner's 1952 is the establishment of Austria's first stroke ward on the “Rosenhügel”, which in 1961 made it possible to take catamneses of around 1,000 stroke patients , thus proving the value of consistent rehabilitation. Reisner recognized the structural change in the neurological sciences, which later became mostly autonomous, which in the 1960s / 1970s caused a new mood in clinical neurology and founded the so-called "International Symposia for the Coordination of Neurological Sciences", which take place every year alternately in Vienna and Graz , Erlangen and Heidelberg met and for many of the younger generation it became a forum for their diverse scientific work. At the Vienna Neurological Univ. Clinic, Reisner succeeded in building a modern neurological institution in which the departments of neuroradiology , brain circulation laboratory, neurochemical laboratory, electro-neurophysiology, neuropsychology and neurorehabilitation facilities were represented under his leadership. In 1976 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Reisner was President of the Society of Austrian Neurologists and Psychiatrists, President of the Austrian Multiple Sclerosis Society and a member and honorary member of numerous domestic and foreign scientific societies. The City of Vienna honored him with an honorary grave at Hietzinger Friedhof (group 45, number 62). In memory of Reisner, the Austrian section of the International League Against Epilepsy awards the "Herbert Reisner Prize for Clinical Epileptology" every two years.

Fonts

• Acute polyneuritis and polyradiculitis . In: Otto Kauders (Ed.): Vienna Contributions to Neurology and Psychiatry , Volume 1. Wilhelm Maudrich, Vienna 1949.
• The psychiatric faculty report. Springer, Vienna 1957.
• The stroke (acute part) . In: W. Doberauer et al. (Ed.): Handbook of practical geriatrics. Volume 1, Enke, Stuttgart 1965, pp. 511-542.
• (as ed.): Advances in technical medicine in neurological diagnostics and therapy. Joint working conference of the German Society for Neurology and the Society of Austrian Neurologists and Psychiatrists. Vienna 3. – 6. October 1979. Neurological Univ. Clinic self-published, Vienna 1980.

literature

• Herbert Reisner. In: R. Koblizek, G. Schnaberth: Neurology Rosenhügel. Rothschild Foundation: 50 years of the Rosenhügel Stroke Center. 90 years of the Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild Foundation for the Mentally Ill in Vienna. Verlag MEMO, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9501238-1-4 .
• Herbert Reisner. In: G. Schnaberth, R. Koblizek: Die Neurologie in Wien from 1870 to 2010. Verlag MEMO, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9501238-4-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Reisner in the catalog of the German National Library