Max nun (* 13 January 1861 in Hamburg; "† 12 August 1959) was a German neurologist.

Life

Nun was born as a son of a buyer and a manufacturer in Hamburg. Here it visited the Johanneum, which it left and received 1879 with the best Abitur of the class, the honour also latin farewell speech to hold.

It decided to the medicine study and spent the first four terms in Heidelberg, where it also its Physikum put down. Starting from summer mash gau, then in Berlin and again in Heidelberg in Freiburg in, studied 1881 where it put its state examination down and 1884 with a work over the etiology of the Pfortathrombose with summa cum laude attained a doctorate. Meanwhile he was an assistant at the medical hospital in Heidelberg with William inherits become. After two-year assistant time it made a scientific attendance journey to France. He spent six weeks with Jean Martin Charcot and visited during this time also the Syphilidologen Fourier.

From 1888 to 1889 nun was two years assistant at the hospital Hamburg Eppendorf and 1890 the Chefarzt of an internal department was appointed. 1896 he became also director/conductor of the 2. Internal department in the hospital Eppendorf, which received the name neurological hospital later. Here max remained nun up to its retirement 1933.

Work

Nonnes scientifically most fruitful period is connected with its activity in Eppendorf. Its work is coined/shaped with clinical width with expansion on the entire Neurolgie by several topics. Thus he discovered a hereditary form of the small brain ataxia, which admits nun Mariesche illness today under the name is. It increased the knowledge of multiple Sklerose, of alcoholic nerve illnesses and the peripheral nerve injuries. It arranged an abundance of syphilisbedingten syndromes of the nervous system and collected cases dwarf stature and hypophysis damages conditioned by thereby. Nun brought a substantial progress into the diagnostics of the syphilitischen illnesses by the introduction of the Globulinreaktion, which he had prepared with Apelt. And it coined/shaped the term pseudo tumor cerebri for brain swelling conditions with Stauungspapille, a whose cause is not discoverable.

In the years 1918 to 1924 nun transferred the line of the German society for nerve medicine and 1926 the editorship of the German magazine for nerve medicine.

When nun was emeritiert with 73 years, he followed an invitation to South Africa, visited in further numerous journeys its former pupils and could their new research results be shown. Still up to its 95. It held also individual public lectures of amazing freshness and aliveness for Lebensjahr at such opportunities. It held its last lecture invitation of Gustav Bodechtel on 18 July 1956 before the Munich clinician shank over natures and feature form of the neurosis.

Max nun was honour member of 21 international neurological societies. He was owner the medal, the hereditary intending coin and the Paracelsus medal.

Eponyme

• Reaction nun Apelt, sensitive, qualitative method to the proof of Globulinen in the Liquor cerebro spinalis.
• Nun Marie illness, a hereditary illness of the nervous system with ataxia by a kortikale Kleinhirnatrophie.
• Nun Milroy Meige illness, chronic Lymphoedem of the legs

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