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Paul Julius Möbius

German neurologistborn, born January 24, 1853, Leipzig; died 1907, Leipzig.

Associated eponyms:
Leyden-Möbius syndrome
A musculare dystrophy involving first either the pelvic (Leyden-Möbius) or, less commonly, the shoulder girdle (Erb’s type).

Möbius' serum
Anti thyroid serum.

Möbius' symptom or sign
Weakness of convergence: one eye converges and the other diverges when looking at the tip of one’s nose.

Möbius' syndrome I
A neurological disorder, characterized by paralysis of the oculomotor nerve accompanied with periodic migraine.

Möbius' syndrome II
A very rare syndrome characterized by congenital palsy of the external rectus and facial muscles, usually bilateral, associated with paralysis of the sixth and seventh nerves.

Poland-Möbius syndrome
A combination of Poland's syndrome and Möbius's syndrome II.

Biography:
Paul Julius Möbius went to school in Leipzig before he attended the theological and philosophical faculties at Leipzig, Jena, and Marburg. After receiving a doctorate in philosophy he studied medicine in Jena and Marburg, obtaining his second doctorate in 1876. He qualified the following year and then spent a brief period in military service, during which he obtained the rank of Oberstabsarzt. He then settled in private practice in Leipzig.

Möbius in Leipzig became assistant in the neurological department of the university policlinic headed by Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell (1853-1925), and for some years assumed leadership of the neurological policlinic of the Albert-Verein. He was habilitated as Privatdozent for neurology in 1883, but, unable to obtain an appointment, he laid down his venia legendi and gave up teaching a decade later.

Besides neuro-anatomy and neurological disorders, Möbius' also published on thyroid dysfunction, gender determination and the inheritance of mental attributes, and other aspects of medicine.

Bibliography:

Grundriss des deutschen Militärsanitätswesens. Leipzig, 1878.
Über hereditäre Nervenkrankheiten. [Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge. Leipzig, 1879.
Das Nervensystem des Menschen. Leipzig, 1880.
Die Nervosität. Leipzig, 1882; 3rd edition, 1906.
Pathologie des Halssympathicus. Berlin klinische Wochenschrift, 1884.
Über periodische Oculomotoriuslähmung. Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1884.
Allgemeine Diagnostik der Nervenkrankheiten.
Leipzig, 1886; 2nd edition, 1894; translated into Russian.
Über Neuritis puerperalis. Münchener mediznische Wochenschrift, 1887.
Über angeborene Facialis-Abducenslähmung. Münchener mediznische Wochenschrift, 1888.
J. J. Rousseaus Krankengeschichte. Leipzig, 1889; 2nd edition, 1903.
Abriss der Lehre von den Nervenkrankheiten. Leipzig, 1893.
Die Migräne. In Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905), et al, publisher:
Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, volume 12; Vienna, 1894.
Neurologische Beiträge. 5 booklets; Leipzig, 1894-1898.
Der umschriebene Gesichtsschwund. (4) + 122 pages.
In Nothnagel (publisher) Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, volume 11; Vienna, 1895.
Die Basedowsche Krankheit. In Nothnagel (Publisher): Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Volume 12; Vienna, 1894; 2nd edition, 1903.
Über die Behandlung der Nervenkranken und die Errichtung von Nervenheilstätten. Berlin, 1896.
Über die Tabes. Berlin, 1897.
Über das Pathologische bei Goethe. Leipzig, 1898.
Über Schopenhauer. Leipzig, 1899.
Über den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes.
Slg. Abh. Nervenkrkh. Volume 3, H. 3. Halle, 1900; 9th edition, 1908.
Über die Anlage zur Mathematik. Leipzig, 1900; 2nd edition, 1907.
Über Kunst und Künstler. Leipzig, 1901.
Stachyologie. Leipzig, 1901.
Über den Kopfschmerz. Halle, 1902.
Über das pathologische bei Nietzsche.
Grenzfragen Nerv. u Seelenleben, H. 17. Wiesbaden, 1902; 2nd edition, 1904.
Ausgewählte Werke. 5 volumes. Leipzig, 1903-1904.
Beiträge zur Lehre von den Geschlechtsunterschieden. Booklets. Halle, 1903-1904.
Im Grenzlande. Aufsätze über Sachen des Glaubens. Leipzig, 1905.
Die Geschlechter der Tiere. 3 parts. Halle, 1905-1906.
Biography in: Deutsche Irrenärzte. Berlin, 1924; 2: 274.