Ludwig Bruns

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Portrait of Ludwig Bruns
Grave of Ludwig Bruns in the Engesohder cemetery in Hanover

Ludwig Bruns (born June 25, 1858 in Hanover ; † November 9, 1916 there ) was a German neurologist .

Life

Born the son of an insurance director, Ludwig Bruns became an orphan at the age of twelve. It was only with the support of his relatives that he was able to continue attending grammar school. After graduating from high school, he began studying medicine at the University of Göttingen . In 1878 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After taking the state examination in Göttingen, he went to Munich , where he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . After two years in ophthalmology , Bruns turned to neurology and initially became an assistant at the provincial insane asylum in Nietleben and the newly founded psychiatric and mental hospital in Halle under Eduard Hitzig . After further positions at the Berlin Charité with Karl Westphal and Hermann Oppenheim , in Paris at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière with Jean-Martin Charcot and in England , he settled as a neurologist in his hometown of Hanover . In 1903 he was appointed professor . He was chairman of the Medical Association of the Province of Hanover . In 1907 Bruns co-founded the Society of German Neurologists and became its first director.

Ludwig Bruns' scientific interest was in all aspects of neurology. He gained particular fame through his work in the field of child neurology and neuropsychology . From 1887 he worked for the Neurological Centralblatt and from 1890 for Schmidt's yearbooks . He also worked on Albert Eulenburg's Real Encyclopedia of All Medicine , the Twentieth Century Practice of Medicine (New York), the German Medical Weekly and the German Journal for Neurology .

Awards

The following medical eponyms go back to Ludwig Bruns:

For the organization of a neurological advisory service for the German army, Bruns was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1916. Ludwig-Bruns-Strasse was named in his honor in Hanover.

Fonts

  • Comparative anatomical studies of the retinal blood vessel system. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1882 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1882).
  • Recent work on the traumatic neuroses. 1894.
  • Clinical experience of the functions of the cerebellum. 1896.
  • About some particularly difficult and practically important differential diagnostic questions relating to the localization of brain tumors. 1897.
  • The tumors of the nervous system: cerebral tumors, spinal cord tumors, tumors of the peripheral nerves. A clinical study. Karger, Vienna 1897; 2nd, completely revised edition 1908.
  • The hysteria in childhood (= collection of informal treatises from the field of nervous and mental diseases. Vol. 1, H. 5/6). Marhold, Halle 1897; 2nd, often changed edition 1906.
  • About paralysis of the soul. 1897.
  • The traumatic neuroses: accident neuroses (= Hermann Nothnagel (Ed.): Special Pathology and Therapy. Vol. 12, Part 1, Section 4). Hölder, Vienna 1901.
  • with Henri Claude : Epilepsia. 1910.
  • with August Cramer and Theodor Draw : Handbook of nervous diseases in childhood. Karger, Berlin 1912.
  • War neurological observations and considerations. 1915.

literature

  • Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, column 266. ( Permalink )
  • Ludwig Bruns † , in: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases , Volume 57, Springer-Verlag, 1917, p. 541 ff.
  • Edward J. Fine: Ludwig Bruns . In: The founders of child neurology (editor Stephen Ashwal), 1990, pp. 430–436 ( digitized version , with picture)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 718
  2. ↑ Bruns' ataxia on whonamedit.com
  3. ^ Bruns' syndrome on whonamedit.com
  4. ↑ Bastian-Bruns law or sign on whonamedit.com
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1916
Place of death Hanover