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Gabriel Anton

Born  1858-07-28
Died  1933

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Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, born July 28, 1858, Saas in Böhmen; died 1933.

Biography of Gabriel Anton

Born in Saas, Böhmen, Gabriel Anton studied in Prague and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in Prague in 1882. For some years he was a physician at the Hospitals in Dobranz (probably today’s Dobrzyn in Poland) and Prague, and in 1887 went to Vienna to work with Theodor Hermann Meynert (1833-1892) whom he regarded as his greatest influence. He was habilitated in psychiatry and neurology in 1889, and in 1891was called to Innsbruck as professor extraordinary of psychiatry and director of the university clinic.

In 1894 he was appointed ordinarius of the same disciplines in Graz, where he remained until he, in 1905, succeeded Karl Wernicke (1848-1905) in Halle an der Saale. He retired in 1926.

Anton contributed to the study of chorea describing scars in the lenticular nuclei. In his pioneering work on the lack of self-perception of their deficits in patients with cortical blindness and deafness, he associated brain pathology with psychology. Paul Schilder (1886-1940) was his assistant in Halle (1909-1912) and with him he analysed choreic and athetoid movements.

Bibliography

  • Störungen im Oberflächenwachstum des menschlichen Grosshirns.
    Zeitschrift für Heilkunde, Prague, 1888.
  • Hydrocephalus und Gehirndruck.
    Medizinische Jahrbücher, Wien, 1889.
  • Über Angeborne Erkrankungen des Centralnervensystems. Vienna 1890.
  • Lokalisation der Muskelsinnstörungen.
    Zeitschrift für Heilkunde, Prague, XXIV.
  • Über die Selbstwahrnehmung der Herderkrankungen durch den Kranken bei Rindenblindheit und Rindentaubheit.
    Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Berlin, 1899, 32: 86.
  • Selbstwahrnehmungen der Gehirnkrankheiten durch den Patienten selbst.
    Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Berlin, 1899.
  • Über den Ausdruck der Gemütsbewegung beim gesunden und kranken Menschen.
    Psych Wschr, 1900; 2: 165-169. Anton-Babinski syndrome.
  • Über geistige Ermüdung der Kinder im gesunden und kranken Zustande. Halle, 1900.
  • Ärztliches über Sprechen und Denken. Halle, 1907.
  • Vier Vorträge über Entwicklungsstörungen beim Kinde.
    Berlin, 1908.
  • Über krankhafte moralische Abartung im Kindesalter und über den Heilwert der Affekte.
    With Fritz Gustav Bramann (1854-1913). Halle 1910.
  • Behandlung der angeborenen und erworbenen Gehirnkrankheiten mit Hilfe des Balkenstiches.
    With Fritz Gustav Bramann. Berlin 1913.
  • Friedrich Hartmann (1871-1937):
    Gabriel Anton zum 70. Geburtstage.
    Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1928, 75: 1505-1507.

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