Otto-Joachim Grüsser

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Otto-Joachim Grüsser (born May 29, 1932 in Eßlingen am Neckar , † October 17, 1995 ) was a German physiologist .

He began to study medicine in Tübingen in 1951, then in Freiburg and Bonn, where he passed the medical state examination in 1956. After graduating as Dr. med. and research work in Freiburg and Göttingen as well as the USA , he completed his habilitation in 1963 in Göttingen and went to Berlin.

Since 1971 he was professor for neurophysiology at the Free University of Berlin . He has published numerous papers in the fields of physiology, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, cultural and intellectual history.

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He had been married to the doctor and professor Ursula Cornehls since 1959 and had four daughters; including the doctor and university professor Sabine Grüsser-Sinopoli (1964–2008). He is buried with his daughter in the Dahlem forest cemetery.

Works

  • Anatomical and physiological basics of binocular vision. Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 1964.
  • Justinus Kerner (1786-1862). Doctor, poet, ghost seer; along with a note on the Uhland-Kerner circle and for medicine and Intellectual history in the age of d. Romance. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-17080-4 .
  • Otto-Joachim Grüsser and Theodor Landis: Visual agnosias and other disturbances of visual perception and cognition. Macmillan, Basingstoke, et al. a. 1991, ISBN 0-333-48888-1 .

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