Max Bielschowsky

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Max Bielschowsky

Max Israel Bielschowsky (born February 20, 1869 in Breslau ; † August 15, 1940 in Hendon , London ) was a German neuropathologist .

Bielschowsky studied medicine in Breslau, Berlin and Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1893. He then worked at the Senckenberg Pathological Institute . From 1896 to 1904 he worked with Emanuel Mendel in Berlin and then with Oskar Vogt in the field of neurobiology until 1933 . As an employee of Vogt, he initially worked at the neurobiological laboratory at Berlin University. In 1919 he switched to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, founded in 1914 and headed by Oskar Vogt and his wife Cécile Vogt. Here he became head of the histological department and in 1925 was appointed "Scientific Member" of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, which he remained until 1934. In 1933 he had to leave the KWI for brain research due to the anti-Semitic provisions of the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service". After stops in Utrecht (1934) and Madrid (1935), Bielschowsky returned to Berlin in 1936. In 1939 he went to London, where he died of a stroke a year later .

Bielschowsky is known for his work on tuberous sclerosis , blindness , Parkinson's , Huntington's and Myotonia congenita Thomsen . According to him, the Jansky-Bielschowsky's disease (see Batten disease ) named.

The Bielschowsky staining is a staining method in histology . With this historically important silver plating technique, nerve cells as well as senile plaques and fibrillary deposits in Alzheimer's disease can be represented.

Works

  • The silver impregnation of the axis cylinders . In: Neurologisches Zentralblatt . Leipzig, 1902, Volume 21, pp. 579-84 and Neurologisches Zentralblatt . Leipzig, 1903, Volume 22, pp. 997-1006
  • General histology and histopathology of the nervous system . In: Max Lewandowsky (Ed.): Handbuch der Neurologie . Volume 1, Berlin 1910.
  • Herpes zoster . In: Max Lewandowsky (Ed.): Handbuch der Neurologie . Volume 5, Berlin 1910.
  • About late infantile familial amaurotic idiocy with cerebellar symptoms . In: German journal for neurology . 1914, Volume 50, pp. 7-29

literature

  • Werner Leibbrand:  Bielschowsky, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 227 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Arthur Weil: Max Bielschowsky , in: W. Haymaker (Red.): The Founders of Neurology. One Hundred and Thirty-Three Biographical Sketches. Prepared for the Fourth International Neurological Congress in Paris by Eighty-Four Authors . CC Thomas, Springfield, Ill. 1953, pp. 168-172
  • Reinhard Rürup : Max Bielschowsky - Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, Berlin-Buch , in: Ders .: Fates and Careers. Memorial book for researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2008, p. 156
  • Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - data and sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online ) , P. 639ff on the KWI for brain research.
  • Bielschowsky, Max , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 105f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The National Archives, Kew, London, England, HO 396 WW2 Internees (Aliens) Index Cards 1939-1947, reference number HO 396/217, Great Britain, foreign internees in World War II, for Max Israel Bielefeldt, after viewing at Ancestry.de , accessed on August 19, 2019


personal data
SURNAME Bielschowsky, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bielschowsky, Max Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropathologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1940
Place of death Hendon , London