Johann Hoffmann (physician)

Johann Hoffmann

Johann Hoffmann (born March 28, 1857 in Hahnheim , † November 1, 1919 in Heidelberg ) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist .

He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Berlin. In 1882/1883 he passed the state examination and became assistant to Nicolaus Friedreich , Adolf Weil and Wilhelm Erb . In 1910 he became a full honorary professor and in 1919 a full professor of nerve pathology. In 1891, together with the Graz neurologist Guido Werdnig , he described the most malicious form of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which is accordingly also referred to as Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome.

Occasionally, Charcot-Marie-Tooth's disease , which Hoffmann helped research, is also referred to as Charcot-Marie-Tooth-Hoffmann syndrome.

Johann Hoffmann was laid to rest at the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in the Hoffmann / Giulini family grave (Dept. Y).

"The architectural tomb was designed by the brothers Renzo and Mario Giulini for their stepfather, the neurologist Johann Hoffmann, who died in 1919."

- Leena Ruuskanen

literature

• Jürgen Peiffer : Brain research in Germany 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists , Springer, 2004 ISBN 3540406905 . P. 1082
• Erb W. Johann Hoffmann November 1, 1919. German Journal for Neurology 65, 1–2, I – XXIV (1920) doi : 10.1007 / BF01757098
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3642707612
• HP Schmitt: Greatness in the shadow - 150 years of Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919), neurologist and university professor. In: Nervenheilkunde, Vol. 27 (2008), Issue 3, pp. 188–191. Summary on the website of the Schattauer Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages. Brigitte Gunderjahn publishing house. Heidelberg 1992. p. 241