Robert Bing

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Robert Paul Bing (born May 8, 1878 in Strasbourg ; † March 14/15 , 1956 in Basel ) was a German - Swiss neurologist .

Life

Robert Bing's father, Berthold Bing, came from Bavaria, later moved his residence to Strasbourg and moved with the family to Basel in 1888. His mother, Valérie Guggenheim, came from Lengnau in Switzerland.

Robert Bing was born on May 8, 1878 in Strasbourg and started school there. He attended the Protestant grammar school there for a year until his parents moved to Basel. In Basel, Bing was then a student at the humanistic grammar school , where he passed his school leaving examination in 1896. He was considered a gift for languages. He then began his medical studies at the University of Basel , which he completed in 1901, at the age of only 23, with the state examination. He had spent a semester of study in Strasbourg . After the state examination he was trained in pathological anatomy and internal medicine in Basel. He wrote a dissertation on Bing entitled On Congenital Muscle Defects and received a doctorate on November 30, 1902. He worked with the brain physiologist Hermann Munk (1839–1912) in Berlin, the neuropathologist Ludwig Edinger in Frankfurt am Main, the neurosurgeon Victor Horsley in London and with the clinicians Joseph Jules Dejerine and Joseph Babinski in Paris.

In 1905 Bing returned to Basel. There he settled as a neurologist. Two years later he completed his habilitation with the text Meaning of the Spinocerebellar System . His habilitation took place on March 21, 1907. In the same year, he and Emil Villiger (1870–1931) founded a "nerve clinic" in Basel, which existed there until 1954 and where he held consultation hours. It was one of the first institutions of this kind after it was founded by Constantin von Monakow in 1887, the first in Basel. Bing's private nerve outpatient clinic was officially incorporated into the University Medical Clinic in 1916.

Soon after his habilitation thesis, Bing published a number of highly regarded specialist books, excerpts of which are listed here among the multitude of his writings. The compendium of topical brain and spinal cord diagnostics had 14 editions up to 1953. His works have been translated into many languages.

On February 2, 1918, Bing was appointed associate professor, and on April 12, 1932, full professor. In 1932 he was also elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . He received a lectureship in neurology on July 23, 1937, which he held until his resignation on September 30, 1948. He left a foundation with the edition of a regular award to "Authors of excellent work which promoted the detection, treatment and healing of nervous diseases". This Bing Prize is awarded by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences . The name of Paul Bing is preserved in the name of the Bing-Horton neuralgia . Bing is one of the forerunners and pioneers of topistic brain research with his work Topical Brain and Spinal Cord Diagnostics . In this context the statement is to be understood that Bing led a struggle to make neurology independent, see also Localization in Neurology . The neurologist Marco Mumenthaler wrote his own paper on this.

He was never married and lived with his mother, whom he cared for. He died on the night of March 14th to 15th, 1956 at the age of 77.

Fonts (selection)

  • About congenital muscle defects. In: Archives for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine . Vol. 170 (1902), pp. 175-228 (dissertation).
  • Compendium of topical brain and spinal cord diagnostics. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1909.
  • Textbook of Nervous Diseases. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1913.
  • with Roland Brückner : brain and eye. Ophthalmic Neurology Floor Plan. 3rd, completely revised edition. Schwabe, Basel 1954.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Broser : Topical and clinical diagnosis of neurological diseases. 2nd edition, U&S, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-541-06572-9 ; S. X.
  2. ↑ Marco Mumenthaler : Neurology in the training of the Swiss doctor. In: Swiss Archive for Neurology and Psychiatry . Vol. 159 (2008), no. 4, p. 265 f. ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Bing, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bing, Robert Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1956
Place of death Basel