Klaus Poeck

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Klaus Poeck

Klaus Poeck , (born January 3, 1926 in Berlin ; † May 10, 2006 in Aachen ) was a German neurologist who made fundamental contributions to the field of neurology and neuropsychology .

Life

Klaus Poeck was born in Berlin in 1926. He went to school there and studied medicine in Berlin for the preclinical subjects and for the clinical subjects in Heidelberg . His state exam he took in 1953, at the same time carried Promotion to doctor of medicine in Heidelberg. He completed his specialist training from 1954 to 1959 in Heidelberg with Paul Vogel and in Düsseldorf with Eberhard Bay in neurology. He received his psychiatric training in Bern from Max Müller , where he researched the psychopathology of the frontal and limbic system together with Georg Pilleri . In 1957 and 1958 he was a DFG scholarship in Pisa at the Department of Physiology at Giuseppe Moruzzi active (1910-1986).

After becoming a specialist, he first went to Freiburg im Breisgau to work as a research assistant at the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at the university, where he completed his habilitation in 1961 and became a senior physician . In 1967, he was offered the newly founded chair for neurology at the newly founded medical faculty of RWTH Aachen University . Here he managed to bring clinical neurology , neuropsychology and aphasiology to an international standard. In addition to the development work of the neurological clinic, Klaus Poeck focused his research interests on classic neuropsychological topics such as the Gerstmann syndrome and the taxonomy of apraxia . in the early 1970s he developed an ever stronger affinity for aphasia research , together with scientists from the fields of linguistics and psychometrics . The development of the Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT), which has been translated into many languages , has achieved lasting importance .

Klaus Poeck was a highly educated, linguistically gifted person who was fluent in Italian , French and English and who pursued many cultural interests. He was a man of the fine arts , music, and literature . In addition, in 1968 Poeck was one of the signatories of the “ Marburg Manifesto ”, along with many other professors from RWTH Aachen University , which formed an academic front against the emerging co-determination at universities.

Poeck found his final resting place in the family grave in the Aachen forest cemetery .

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Its list of publications includes more than 250 articles and book chapters. He was editor of the Journal of Neurology and "Associated Editor" of international journals such as Cortex and Neuropsychology . His greatest success is the "Textbook of Neurology" , which appeared for the first time in 1966; the 12th edition appeared on the day of his death. Together with Hanns Christian Hopf and Hans Schliack , he published the manual “Neurology in Practice and Clinic” .

In 1985 and 1986 Klaus Poeck was President of the German Society for Neurology , 1979 to 1981 President of the Academy of Aphasia , 1989 to 1997 Chairman of the Steering Commities of the World Federation of Neurology . Klaus Poeck was an honorary member of many international societies, such as the American Neurological Association , the Société Belge de Neurologie , the Fulton Society , the Association of British Neurologists , the European Neurological Society and the Austrian Society for Neurology . He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology , the Royal Society of Medicine in London and the Royal College of Physicians in London. In 1988 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wording and list of signatures of the manifesto against the politicization of universities ( memento of the original from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Blätter für German and international politics , born in 1968; Issue 8 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  2. ^ Marburg Manifesto , in: Der Spiegel of July 22, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Poeck, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2006
Place of death Aachen