- Friedrich Meggendorfer
Friedrich Meggendorfer (
June 7 ,1880 -February 12 ,1953 ) was a Germanpsychiatrist andneurologist who was a native ofBad Aibling ,Bavaria .Meggendorfer was an assistant to
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) inMunich , and later worked at the Friedrichsberg Psychiatric Hospital in Hamburg. From 1934 to 1945 he was a professor and director of the psychiatric clinic at Erlangen. DuringWorld War I he was stationed in Turkey as a medical assistant.He performed important research of
dementia , progressiveparalysis andHuntington's disease , and in 1930 provided an early description of familialCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the "Backer family" of northern Germany.Selected publications
* "Gerichtliche Psychiatrie" (Judicial Psychiatry), 1931
* "Allgemeine und spezielle Therapie der Geistes und Nervenkrankheiten" (General and Special Treatment of Mental and Neurological Health), 1950References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the Polish Wikipedia."
* [http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/66/1/213 Familial prion diseases: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal insomnia]
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