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Willibald Oscar Scholz
German neurologist and psychiatrist, born December 15, 1889, Greiz in Thüringen; died 1971.
Associated eponyms:
Scholz-Bielschowsky-Henneberg disease
Metachromatic leukodystrophy. A collective term for a possibly rather heterogeneous group of fatal diseases with dystrophy of the white matter of the brain
Biography:
Willibald Oscar Scholz studied at Tübingen, Munich, and Jena, obtaining his doctorate at the latter university in 1914. He was assistant physician in the university clinic for mind and nervous diseases at Tübingen, subsequently becoming head physician at the Leipzig psychiatric and nerve clinic. In 1925 he received the venia legendi for psychiatry and neurology at Tübingen, becoming ausserordentlicher professor at Leipzig in 1930, 1932 at Munich. His work concerned clinical psychiatry, neurology, and brain pathology, particularly histopathology.
Bibliography:
- Epilepsie.
In: Oswald Bumke (1877-1950), publisher: Handbuch der Geisteskrankheiten, volume 11, Berlin, 1930.
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