Professor, Dr. med. Hermann Oppenheim (* 1 January 1858 in being castle, Westphalia; "† 22. May 1919 in Berlin) was a German neurologist.

Life

It studied medicine in Goettingen, Bonn and Berlin. He was pupil of Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, and attained a doctorate 1881. After short Assistenzzeit to the Maison de in Berlin it occurred the mental hospital of the where it was active as a physician from 1883 to 1891. 1886 it habilitierte for neurology. It laid down 1898 the Dozentur at the university and 1891 created Oppenheim a private hospital, which attained international rank. In its research, by which he supported the acknowledgment of the neurology considerably and large portion of their scientific spreading had, he dedicated himself in particular to the illnesses after traumas and the new formations of the central nervous system. Admits became it by its studies to the hospital of pathological anatomy the Tabes, the multiple Sklerose and the features.

Oppenheim created 1907 the citizens of Berlin society for psychiatry and nerve medicine and became their first chairman. From 1912 to 1916 he was a president of the society of German mental specialists.

Medical nomenclature

After Hermann Oppenheim is among other things the Oppenheim indication, the diffraction of the large toe or the foot toward when coating the internal seeming leg edge designated. This Refelex refers to back Mark illnesses (pyramid course lesion). Medical nomenclature it entered by the following further disease pictures and medical terms, the OPPENHEIM illness, the OPPENHEIM cerebral child paralysis, the OPPENHEIM Fressreflex and the OPPENHEIM course with multiple Sklerose.

Works

• "“Trauma tables the neuroses"” (1889)
• "“Text book of the nervous diseases"” (to 1923 7 Aufl.)
• "“Conditions of the theory of the war and accident neuroses"” (1918)

Related links

• http://www.charite.de/neurologie/geschichte/oppenheim.html

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