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Hans Haenel
German neurologist, born October 31, 1874, Karlsruhe; died 1942, Dresden.
Associated eponyms:
Haenel's sign
Absence of pain on pressure applied to the eye in the late stage of neurosyphilis.
Haenel's variant
Progressive muscular atrophy affecting only the upper limbs.
Biography:
Hans Haenel studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate there in 1896. He then entered service as a military physician. In 1912 he was appointed member of the Reichsgesundheitsamt, and in 1913 he became professor and director of the Institut für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten in Saarbrücken. In 1915 he became director of the bacteriological department of the Reichsgesundheitsamt. He worked, among other things, on the cure of trypanosomiais with Bayer 205 (Germanin).
Bibliography:
- Isidor Fischer, publisher:
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932.
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