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Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer
German neurologist, born July 19, 1883, Heidelberg;
died 1966.
Associated eponyms:
Adie's syndrome
A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation.
Kisch's reflex
Closure of an eye resulting from heat stimulation or some tactile irritant of the skin at the depth of the external auditory meatus.
Biography:
Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer, a son of the obstetrician Ferdinand Adolph Kehrer (1837-1914), studied in Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich, and Kiel. He obtained his doctorate in 1908 in Heidelberg and subsequently was assistant physician in the psychiatric-neurological clinics in Freiburg and Kiel. In 1914 he was habilitated for psychiatry and neurology in Breslau, becoming professor extraordinary in 1918. In 1925 Kehrer was called to the University of Münster as ordinarius of his speciality.
Bibliography:
- Die Veranlagung zu seelischen Störungen.
With Ernst Kretschmer (1888-1964).
Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Volume 40. Berlin, 1924.
- Ursachen und Erblichkeitskreis von Chorea, Myoklonie und Athetose.
Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Volume 50. Berlin, 1927.
- In Leben erworbene psychische Ursachen.
- Strukturanalyse.
In: Oswald Bumke (1877-1950), publisher: Handbuch der Geisteskrankheiten.
Volume 1. Berlin, 1928.
- Paranoische Zustände.
In: Oswald Bumke (1877-1950), publisher: Handbuch der Geisteskrankheiten. Volume 6. Berlin, 1928.
- Die Allgemeinerscheinungen der Hirngeschwülste.
Leipzig, 1931.
- Der Veitstanz der Schwangeren (sog, Graviditätschorea). Leipzig, 1942.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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