Hugo Liepmann

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Hugo Liepmann

Hugo Karl Liepmann (born April 9, 1863 in Berlin ; † May 6, 1925 there ) was a German neurologist . He was considered one of the leading brain researchers of his time and is remembered for the naming and classification of the apraxias .

Life

From 1895 to 1899 he was Carl Wernicke's assistant in Breslau . He received his doctorate in 1894 and completed his habilitation in 1901 at the Charité in Berlin. From 1914 to 1920 he was the successor to Karl Moeli (1849-1919) director of the Herzberge Institute.

research

The apraxia, the inability of a brain-damaged person to carry out certain meaningful actions despite preserved personality, intelligence, strength and coordination, was a focus of his scientific work. As early as 1900 he had described the lesion picture under this name. His classification, which he published in 1908, was based on the idea that different locations in the brain had to be assumed for the creation of an action plan and its execution. Accordingly, he divided it into ideational and ideokinetische (later than ideomotorisch hereinafter) apraxia. However, this classification is increasingly abandoned nowadays.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Jaspers : General Psychopathology . Springer, Berlin 9 1973, ISBN 3-540-03340-8 ; P. 151 ff. - to chap. Apraxia, aphasia.

Fonts

  • The clinical picture of apraxia ("motor asymbolia") due to a case of one-sided apraxia. In: Monthly magazine for psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 8 (1900), pp. 3-78.
  • About disturbances of action in brain patients. Karger, Berlin 1905
  • About the agnostic disorders. In: Neurological Centralblatt. Vol. 13 (1908), pp. 609-617, 664-675.
  • Normal and pathological physiology of the brain. Inː Hans Curschmann (Ed.): Textbook of nervous diseases . Springer, Berlin 1909, pp. 395-493.

swell

  • Goldenberg G. (2003): Apraxia and beyond: life and work of Hugo Liepmann. Cortex. (2003) 39 (3): 509-24. PMID 12870824 .

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personal data
SURNAME Liepmann, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liepmann, Hugo Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1925
Place of death Berlin