Alfred captain (* 29 August 1881 Gleiwitz (Upper Silesia, 5 April 1948 Boston).

The GermanJewish psychiatrist and neurologist Alfred captain were born on 29 August 1881 in Gleiwitz (Upper Silesia). Captain vocational career/development was particularly certain the time by those with the well-known neurologist Max of nun in Hamburg. Time of its life predominantly was captain main point of research on neurological area. Captain received the Ordinariat for psychiatry of the university to 1926 resounds. Until 1935 it was as a director of the psychiatric ones and mental hospital resounds actively, had in the course of the realm citizen law its chair to give up and its activity as a physician to terminate. The way into the emigration, last end released by the temporary arrest in the concentration camp Dachau, led across Switzerland and England in the long run into the U.S.A. a new start on scientific level succeeded to captain after its emigration only in small measure. It received in Boston an employment at the Joseph H. to Pratt DIAGNOSTIC hospital. Efforts with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation a comparable position as in Germany to find, failed. Up to its death and worked he lived in Boston. Captain never overcame the loss of the homeland. It died on 5 April 1948 at "“broken heart"” like it his Mrs. Selma in their ring-back signal formulated. Its most important contribution remained already in the year 1912 written articles over the effectiveness Phenobar bitals (Luminal) as Antiepileptikum. From this cause since 1979 the Alfred captain price for epilepsy research is lent. After its emigration it described left Myopathie, which is called today captain Thannhauser Muskeldystrophie together with the internalists Siegfried Joseph Thannhauser in the year 1941 for the first time one autosomal dominant.

Literature (selection)

Becker PE. Dominant autosomal muscular dystrophy with early contractures and cardio myopathy (captain Thannhauser). Hum Genet 1986; 74:184

Captain A. Luminal with epilepsy. med Wschr 1912; 59:1907 - 1909

Captain A, Thannhauser SJ. Muscular shortening and dystrophy. A heredofamilial disease. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 1941; 46:654 - 664

Krasnianski M, honours U, Neudecker S, Zierz S: Alfred captain, Siegfried Thannhauser, and on endangered muscular more disorder. Arch Neurol 2004; 61 (7): 1139-41

Kumbier E, Haack K (2002): Alfred captain - fate of a GermanJewish neurologist. Fortschr Neurol Psychiat 70:204 - 209

Kumbier E, Haack K (2004): As from a sleeping drug a Antiepileptikum became - the discovery of the antiepileptischen effect of Phenobarbital by Alfred captain. Act Neurol 31:302 - 306

Kumbier E, Haack K (2004): Pioneers in neurology: Alfred captain (1881-1948). J Neurol 251:1288 - 1289

Mueller E. Alfred captain. Mental specialist 1948; 19:433

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