Life

Hans Berger became to 21. May 1873 born in Neuses with Coburg (Upper Franconia) as a son of a physician. It visited the High School in Coburg, where it existed 1892 the Abitur in all parts with very good. Afterwards it studied its inclinations according to first mathematics and astronomy in Berlin, changes then to the medicine study, which from Berlin across Jena, peppering castle, and Kiel finally again to Jena led it (1893 - 1897), where it also attained a doctorate.

In Jena Hans Berger 1897 began his medical activity as an assistant at the psychiatric hospital under the direction of Otto Binswanger. 1901 it habilitierte itself with a work to the theory of the blood circulation in the head cave of humans, in particular under the influence of medicines. This hospital left Berger never again: it moved up in 1912 to the upper physician and 1919, as a successor Binswangers, to the director of the psychiatric hospital and the tidy professor.

1927/28 he dressed the office of the rector of the Jenaer university; its Rektoratsrede over the localization in the grosshirn represents a kind wissenschafliches Glaubensbekenntnis.

In the year 1938 Hans Berger was emeritiert. After outbreak 2. World war transferred one it again 1939 the hospital in kommissarischer line. On 1 June 1941 Hans Berger took itself the life in an accumulation of heavy courage.

Bergers way to the electroencephalogram

1902 began Hans Berger with experiments at the brain cortex of dogs and cats. it always looked for for ways to objektivieren the relationship between bodies and soul by physical methods.

1924 it began to develop a method for the derivative of "“brain stream"” at humans. Thus the possibility was offered of deriving with a patient by a Trepanationsstelle from the intact cerebral cortex electrical activity. On 6 July 1924 it succeeded to Hans Berger to register those first safe results - the electroencephalogram was discovered. After its success experimented Berger untiringly further, had doubts, began again again. Only in the year 1929 it published its discovery. Its work carried the title over the Elektrenkephalogramm of humans (in: Arch f Psychiatr 87:527 - 570).

Its innovative discovery did not find many years an application. Only in the year 1934 the English neuro physiologist encountered Edgar Douglas Adrian the work Bergers and recognized the consequence of the discovery. It gave brain-electrical activity name the Berger rhythm to the alpha basic rhythm that.

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