Hartmut Pilz

Born 1934
Died 1978

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German neurologist, 1934-1978.

Biography of Hartmut Pilz

Professor Dr. Hartmut Pilz worked with Horst Jatzkewitz (1912-2002) and others at the universities in Munich (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie, Max Planck-Institut) and Göttingen (Division of Neuropathology, Department of Neurology), at the University of California, San Diego in the United States, and in Hamburg. He published many essays on the Jatzkewitz-Pilz syndrome/Sandhoff Jatzkewitz disease and other topics related to his scientific work.

We thank Roger Pilz for information submitted. Professor Dr. Hartmut Pilz was his father.

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