Moriz Benedikt (neurologist)

Moriz Benedict

The department heads of the General Polyclinic in Vienna around 1885.
From left, seated:
Alois Monti , Johann Schnitzler , Robert Ultzmann , Jakob Hock , Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch ;
Standing from left:
August Leopold von Reuss , Emil Stoffella , Wilhelm Winternitz , Leopold Oser , Anton von Frisch , Hans von Hebra , Ludwig Fürth , Moriz Benedikt , Viktor Urbantschitsch , Max Herz , Anton Wölfler , Ludwig Bandl

Moriz Benedikt (also Moritz Benedikt ; born July 4, 1835 in Eisenstadt , † April 14, 1920 in Vienna ) was an Austrian neurologist of Jewish descent. He was a professor of neurology at the University of Vienna . Benedikt worked as a physicist with the Austrian military during the Second Italian War of Independence (1859) and the Austro-Prussian War .

Benedikt was a specialist in the field of electrotherapy and neuropathology , and Benedict syndrome was named after him.

He also used the divining rod to research the “ pathogenic places” postulated by him, which paved the way for the radiesthesia described by Gustav Freiherr von Pohl .

Fonts (selection)

Title page of the first print in 1868

• Electrotherapy , Tendler & Companie, Vienna 1868
• The psychological functions of the brain in a healthy and sick state , Vienna Clinic: Lectures; Vol. 1, no. 7, Vienna, 1875
• On the teaching of the localization of brain functions , Vienna Clinic: Lectures; Vol. 9, H. 5-6, Vienna 1875
• About catalepsy and mesmerism , Vienna Clinic: Lectures; Vol. 6, H. 3/4, Vienna, 1880
• On electricity in medicine , Vienna clinic: lectures; Vol. 10, no.2, Vienna, 1884
• Basic formulas of neuropathological thinking , Vienna Clinic: Lectures; Vol. 11, no. 4, Vienna, 1885
• Hypnotism and suggestion , Breitenstein, Leipzig, 1894
• Human soul science as a pure empirical science, Reisland, Leipzig, 1895
• Crystallization and Morphogenesis , Perles, Vienna, 1904
• From my life: memories and discussions , Konegen, Vienna, 1906
• Biomechanics and Biogenesis , Fischer, Jena, 1912
• The latent (Reichenbach's) emanations of chemicals , Konegen, Vienna, 1915
• Guide to the rod theory (dowsing rod) , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, 1916
• Rod and pendulum gauge , Hartleben, Vienna, 1917

literature

• Benedikt Moritz von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 69.
• Benedikt, Moriz , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 79f.

Web links

Commons : Moriz Benedikt (Neurologist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Moriz Benedikt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Earth rays: Danger from below? in: The Brockhaus multimedial 2005 Version 7