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Ludwig Bruns
German neurologist, born June 25, 1858, Hannover;
died November 9, 1916.
Associated eponyms:
Bastian-Bruns law or sign
In complete transverse section of the upper spinal cord the reflexes and muscular tone below the level of the lesion are lost.
Bruns' ataxia
Difficulty in moving the feet when they are in contact with the ground and a tendency to fall backwards, seen in frontal lobe lesions.
Bruns' syndrome
Neurological disturbance marked by violent periodic headaches, vomiting, and sudden attacks of vertigo and giddiness and sometimes falling.
Biography:
Ludwig Bruns was educated in Göttingen and Munich from 1877 to 1892. For a period he devoted his efforts to opthalmology, then changed to neurology. He was subsequently at first assistant at the provincial lunatic asylum in Nietleben, under Julius Eduard Hitzig (1838-1907), from 1895 he was at the newly established psychiatric and nerve clinic in Halle, later in Berlin and Paris, before settling in Hannover. He was active as a contributor to various medical journals.
Bibliography:
- Die Geschwülste des Nervensystems.
Berlin, 1897; 2nd edition, 1907.
- Die Hysterie im Kindesalter.
In: Slg Abh Nervenkrkh; Halle an der Saale, 1897.
- Die traumatischen Neurosen. Vienna, 1901.
- Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten im Kindesalter.
With August Cramer (1860-1912). Berlin, 1912.
- List of works in Archiv für Psychiatrie, Berlin, 1917, 57: 548.
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