Edward Flatau (* 27 December 1869 in the Polish Plock; "† 7. June 1932 in Warsaw). Flatau is today still one the most famous Polish neurologist, who established the neurobiological and neuropathological science in its homeland. It supported the establishment of the neurological and psychiatric section of the Warsaw medical society and affected the establishment of the Polish magazines "“Neurologia Polska"” and "“Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie"”.

it began 1886 with its study in Moscow, here it particularly affected by the psychiatrist Sergej Sergejewitsch Korsakow and the neurologist Alexej Jakowlewitsch Koschewnikow. To its study conclusion 1892 he came 1893 to Berlin, where he with Emanuel Mendel, William Waldeyer, which internalists Alfred Goldscheider and Ernst Viktor von Leyden as well as the neurologist Hermann Oppenheim to 1899 its training continued.

With the citizen of Berlin Flatau the interest in neuro anatomy divided neurologists Louis Jacobsohn Lask. 1894 it already published the Atlas of the human brain and the fiber direction, which appeared in German, English, French, Russian and 1896 in Polish. It set up the law of the eccentric storage of the long courses to 1897, which was also topic of its graduation 1899 in Moscow, and worked in particular over the pyramid course, tumors of the multiple Sklerose, Meningitis and neurological illnesses at Tuberkulose. With his teacher Alfred Goldscheider it published 1898 the normal one and pathological anatomy of the nerve cells, a work over the structure of the nerve cells and its change under mechanical, thermal and chemical influences: the character of the change informed about the kind of the influences. It defended the neuron theory, in which it was particularly interested since 1895.

Flatau rejected and returned a call on the neurological chair of the University of Buenos Aires 1899 to Warsaw. In its dwelling it furnished a private microscopic laboratory, worked as Konsiliarius in different Warsaw hospitals and had a large private practice. 1904 he became director/conductor of the neurological hospital of the Jewish hospital in Warsaw and trained there numerous neurologists. It sketched neurological investigation patterns, which it published 1915 in Warsaw and Berlin.

The teachings were very important to Flatau, it promoted its students and young colleagues intensively. It was described as modest; its slogan was a quotation Nothnagels: Only good humans can be a good physician. it furnished a neurological laboratory to 1911 in the Warsaw psychological society and became 1913 the first chairman of the neurobiological department of the Warsaw science company, starting from 1919 of chairmen of the Nenski institute for experimental biology. During the First World War Flatau with his friend, the neurologist Samuel Wulfowitsj Goldflam worked. Its today still most well-known book published it 1912 in a Polish and a German expenditure over

Works

• Edward Flatau and Alfred Goldscheider: Normal and pathological anatomy of the nerve cells: due to the newer research. Berlin, H. Kornfeld, 1898. 140 pages.

• Atlas OF the human brain, and the course OF the nerve fibres, by Edward Flatau, with A preface by E. Mendel. Berlin, S. Karger, 1894. 25 pages.

• Manual of anatomy and comparative anatomy of the cent ral nervous system of the mammals. With L. Jacobsohn (Berlin neurologist). Berlin, S. Karger, 1899.

• Manual of the pathological anatomy of the nervous system. With Louis Jacobsohn, Karl differently (1868-1927) and Lazar Salomowitch Minor (1855-1942). Berlin, 1903-1904.

• Tumeurs de la moelle et de la colonne Paris, 1910. 175 pages.

• The Berlin, J. Springer, 1912. Series: Monographien from that total areas of the neurology and psychiatry, H. 2.

• Ernst Julius Remak and E. Flatau: Neuritis and polyneuritis. 2 parts. Vienna, A. 1899-1900. In Carl William Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905) among other things, Hrsg.: Manual of the speciellen pathology and therapy. IX, Bd. 3, abbott 3-4. (24 Bde., Vienna 1894-1905). Flatau wrote the chapters over anatomy and pathological anatomy.

Literature

• E.J. Herman: Historia neurologii polskiej 1975. Polska Akademia Nauk, Monografie z nauki i techniki, Tom XCVII, Wroclaw (in polish).

• Ulrike iron mountain: Of "„the Nervenplexus"” to "„the soul strength"”. Work and fate citizens of Berlin of the neurologist Louis Jacobsohn Lask (1863-1940). Frankfurt/Main, Peter Lang, 2005, P. 33-34.

Related links

Articles in category "Edward Flatau"

We found here 4 articles.