Izaac van Deen

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Izaac van Deen

Izaac van Deen , also Izaäc van Deen, (born March 24, 1804 in Burgsteinfurt , † November 1, 1869 in Groningen ), was a doctor and scientist.

Van Deen was the son of the Danish rabbi Abrahm Tiktin Isaäksen and his wife Charlotte David. He attended high school in Groningen and studied medicine in Copenhagen from 1824 to 1831 . He then worked as a doctor in Hamburg . In 1834 he received his doctorate in Leiden with the text De differentia et nexu inter nervos vitae animalis et vitae organicae and settled in Zwolle . From 1851 he was a professor at the University of Groningen .

Izaak van Deen's research was particularly focused on the spinal cord . He described the transmission of motor impulses within the front column (Columna anterior) and the sensitive impulses within the rear column (Columna posterior) of the spinal cord.

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  1. ^ CH van Herhaben: Deen (Izaäk van) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 3. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 279–280 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1914, reprinted unchanged).
  2. ^ Antoine Keyser: The Development of Neurology in the Low Countries. In: Stanley Finger, François Boller, Kenneth L. Tyler (Eds.): Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Volume 95: History of Neurology. Elsevier 2010, ISBN 978-0-444-52009-8 , p. 702.