Otfrid Foerster (* 9 November 1873 in Breslau; "† 15 June 1941 ebenda) was a German neuro scientist, who supplied innovative contributions to the neurology and neurosurgery.

Foerster put 1892 down the Abitur at the Maria Magdalenen High School into Breslau. In its youth he learned auto+didactically flute and went gladly into the theatre.

From 1892 to 1896 it studied in Freiburg in mash gau, Kiel and Breslau medicine. In the Tentamen Physikum regretted the physiologist Rudolf Heidenhain that it could not become by the note very well the achievements Foersters fair. 1897 put Foerster down the medical state examination into Breslau, where he attained a doctorate in the same year.

On Wernickes suggestion went to Foerster to completion of its doctor work for two years abroad; he spent the winter in Paris with Joseph Jules Dejerine - where he also Pierre Marie and Joseph Babinski could hear - in the summer he was with Heinrich Frenkel in Switzerland, in order to study the exercise therapy of nerve patients there.

Foerster buildup in a time, in which the neurology, among other things by Jean Martin Charcot, William inherit yourself and William Richard Gowers, from which internal medicine and the psychiatry by Carl who-nod out to develop began. It professed itself clearly to the functional lokalisatorischen direction of the neurology. From co-operation with who-nod arose his large interest in the anatomy of the central nervous system. The two researchers publication 1903 an Atlas of the brain.

The neurological schools were aligned essentially to the diagnosis, to possibilities of an effective therapy hardly gave it. It was earnings/services of Foerster to take up the exercise therapy with patients with neurological disturbances. From it a theoretical interest in the coordinative disturbances in the expiration of the movements for it, for which its Habilitationsschrift (1902, resulted) applied. The work attained large topicality in connection with the systematic introduction of the rehablitation to the medicine. The meaning of the spinalen reflex elbow in the emergence of the Spastik suggested a possible treatment by interruption of the sensitive thigh, and Foerster recommends Hinterwurzel cutting through (Foerster operation) to 1908 for the removal of the Spastik.

1915 it reported on the results of its operational treatment of nerve shot wounds, later operated it different also brain and back-Mark-hurt.

In the intermediate wartime of 1925 to 1935 Breslau became by working Foerster an attraction place particularly for US-American neurologists and neurosurgeons. Its pupil of savage Penfield resumed Foersters life's work of the analysis of the brain cortex and the study of the epilepsy. Came also Percival Bailey, which along-brought the new classification of the brain tumors, and Paul Bucy, who published a fundamental Monografie over the motor crust.

Foersters prominent position in the neurology of Germany was recognized since 1924. It stood thereby apart from max of nun and was long as its for successors until 1932 eight years chairmen of the society German mental specialists.

In the decade from 1925 to 1935 Foerster brought all available analytic methods in its research to the employment. Systematically it examined electricalphysiologically all clinical disturbances. Fundamental work developed over the electrical phenomena with the reflex disturbances pyramid course syndrome, with Pallidum lesions etc.

With the help of the skirt skin he donation and support of the State of Prussia he could open new "“neurological Forschungsinstitut"” to 1934, who was renamed later on its names.

Otfrid Foerster was together with Oswald Bumke co-editor of the monumental work manual of the neurology, in which he wrote several chapters.

1935 became it on the occasion of 100. Birthday of John Hughlings Jackson the Jackson memory medal lent.

Bibliography

• Physiology and pathology of the Coordination, Jena 1902
• Atlas of the brain, given change of Carl who-nods, Berlin 1903
• Contributions to the brain surgery, Berlin 1909
• The Kontrakturen with the illnesses of the pyramid course, Berlin 1909
• Over the operational treatment of spastischer paralyses by means of Resektion of the rear , Berlin 1911
• To the pathogenesis and surgical treatment of the epilepsy, Leipzig 1925
• The pain and its operational treatment, resound 1935

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