Rudolf Dreyer

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Rudolf Dreyer (born August 31, 1910 in Höxter ; † August 24, 1998 ) was a German neurologist , clinical neurophysiologist and epileptologist .

life and work

After studying in Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Kiel, Dreyer passed the state examination in 1937. After starting his specialist training, he was a military doctor from 1939 to 1945. After the end of the war, he completed his specialist training at the von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten (since 2010: Foundation) Bethel in Bielefeld. With the neurologist and neurophysiologist Richard Jung in Freiburg, he completed additional training in clinical neurophysiology.

In 1950 Dreyer was appointed senior physician in Bethel and from 1962 to 1971 he was chief physician (until 1967 together with Gerhard Schorsch ; 1967–1971 together with Eckart Wiesenhütter, former assistant and private lecturer under Viktor Emil von Gebsattel in Würzburg) at the clinic for seizure patients " Mara ”at the Bethel Epilepsy Center. In 1951 he made the first purchase of an EEG device at a non-university clinic in Germany and in 1971, at the same time as the university hospitals in Bonn and Berlin, he bought the first video EEG double-image systems.

In 1971 Dreyer handed over the management of the “Mara” clinic to Erwin Stenzel and moved to the Society for Epilepsy Research eV in Bethel, taking on a research assignment from the German Research Foundation. In 1973 he was appointed professor and in 1979 he retired.

In addition to numerous articles in specialist journals, Dreyer was also the (co-) author or editor of several books and brochures.

Awards received a. 1972 with the Michael Prize of the Michael Foundation , 1975 as "Ambassador for Epilepsy" by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and 1979 with the honorary membership of the German section of the ILAE (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HE Boenigk: Looking back at Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Dreyer. In: The Ring. February 1999, p. 20.
  2. ↑ G. Krämer: Lexicon of Epileptology. Hippocampus Verlag, Bad Honnef 2012, pp. 325–326.
  3. ^ Burkhard Schmidt, Karl-Ernst Bühler: Brief outline of the history of the Würzburg University Institute for Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. (= Sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6). Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982, ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 927-933; here: p. 928.
  4. ^ R. Dreyer: The pharmacotherapy of epilepsies. (= Documenta Geigy Acta Clinica. No. 12). JR Geigy SA, Basel 1970.
  5. ↑ R. Dreyer (Ed.): Symposium on experimental problems in epilepsy research. Bethel publishing house, Bethel ca.1971.
  6. ↑ R. Dreyer: Pharmatoxikologie der Antiepileptischen Drugs. Desitin-Werke C. Klinke, Hamburg 1972.
  7. ↑ R. Dreyer (ed.): Activity report of the Society for Epilepsy Research eV of the von Bodelschwingh institutions in Bethel. Self-published, Bielefeld 1978.
  8. ^ R. Dreyer, W. Wehmeyer: Seizure documentation. Instructions for observing and describing epileptic seizures. 4th, revised edition. Bethel-Verlag, Bielefeld 1982.
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1998