Kazimierz Karbowski

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Kazimierz Karbowski (March 16, 1925 - February 8, 2012 ) was a Polish-born Swiss neurologist and epileptologist .

Life

Karbowski completed his studies and began his specialist training in Krakow , Poland. In 1957 he emigrated to Haifa , Israel. 1960–1962 he was a scientific assistant in the EEG and vestibularis laboratory at the Cantonal Hospital in Geneva , Switzerland, and from 1964–1967 senior physician at the Epilepsy Clinic in Tschugg near Bern. In 1967 he moved to the Neurological University Clinic in Bern. In 1970 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "Vestibular apparatus and electrical brain activity". From 1972 until his retirement in 1990 Karbowski was chief physician and associate professor and head of the department for epileptology and electroencephalography.

1978–1980 Karbowski was President of the Swiss EEG Society. Among other things, he was awarded the Berger Prize by the German EEG Society in 1991 and the Tissot Medal by the Swiss Epilepsy League (honorary member since 1992) in 2007. Karbowski is the author of numerous articles and publisher of books, including annotated new editions of the classic epilepsy textbook by the Swiss doctor and public health writer Samuel Auguste Tissot .

Fonts (selection)

  • Vestibular apparatus and electrical brain activity. EEG and ENG studies in healthy people and those with epilepsy. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1971.
  • The electroencephalogram in an epileptic seizure. Atlas. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1975.
  • (Ed.): Status psychomotoricus and its differential diagnosis. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1980.
  • (Ed.): The vertigo from an interdisciplinary point of view. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1981.
  • (Ed.): Hallucinations in epilepsies and their differential diagnosis. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1982.
  • Epileptic seizures. Phenomenology, Differential Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1985.
  • Samuel Auguste Tissot and his “Traité de L'épilepsie” from 1770. New edition with introduction: Tissot (SA). Traité de L'Épilepsy. Faisant le Tome troisième du Traité des Nerfs & de leurs Maladies. Lausanne / Paris, A. Chapuis / PF Didot, le Jeune 1770. Lausanne, Ateliers d'Arts Graphiques de la Fondation Eben-Ezer à Lausanne 1984.
  • with Krämer G .: New edition of the first German translation with a new introduction: Tissot (SA). Traité de L'Épilepsy. Faisant le Tome troisième du Traité des Nerfs & de leurs Maladies. Lausanne / Paris, A. Chapuis / PF Didot, le Jeune 1770; German: Treatise on epilepsy or falling addiction. Berlin, Haude and Spener 1771 (translated by JG Krünitz); another German edition was also published by JG Müller in Leipzig in 1771 and a third in a translation by C. Held was published by FG ​​Jacobäer in Leipzig in 1786; Nijmegen, Arts & Boeve 1999

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SURNAME Karbowski, Kazimierz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-born Swiss neurologist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1925
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2012