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Martin Bernhardt

Born  1844
Died  1915

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German neuropathologist, born April 10, 1844, Potsdam; died March 17, 1915, Berlin.

Biography of Martin Bernhardt

Martin Bernhardt attended the University of Berlin, a student of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) and Ludwig Traube (1818-1876), and received his doctorate on May 1, 1866. Following graduation he worked as assistant physician under Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910) at the medical clinic in Königsberg (Prussia) from 1867 to 1869. In 1869 he returned to the same post at Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal's (1833-1890) clinic at the Berlin Charité, until 1873. He volunteered for the army for the war of 1870/1871. After the war he was habilitated in Berlin in 1872, working as a specialist in neuropathology, until 1882, when he was appointed extraordinary physician at the faculty of medicine in Berlin. He retired from his polyclinic in 1914 and died the following year.

Bibliography

  • Die Sensibilitätsverhältnisse der Haut. Berlin, 1874.
  • Beiträge zur Symptomatologie und Diagnostik der Hirngeschwülste. Berlin, 1881.
  • Ueber die sogenannte "temporäre Form" der acuten atrophischen Spinallähmung erwachsener.
    [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, 1883, 92: 369-186.
  • Elektrizitätslehre für Mediziner und Elektrotherapie.
    With Isidor Rosenthal (1836-1915). 3rd edition of Rosenthal's book. Berlin, 1884.
  • Über Franklin'sche oder Spannungsströme vom elektrodiagnostischen Standpunkt.
    (Volkmanns) Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1892, N.F. 41. Einzelausgabe. 32 pages.
  • Weiterer Beitrag zur Lehre von den hereditären und familiären Erkrankungen des Nervensystems. Ueber die spinal-neuritische Form der progressiven Muskelatrophie.
    [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1893, 133: 259-294..
    Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy.
  • Über isoliert im Gebiete des N. cutaneus femoris externus vorkommende Parästhesien.
    Neurologisches Centralblatt, 1895, 14: 242-244.
  • Die Erkrankungen der peripherischen Nerven. Wien, 1898.
    In: Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905), et al, publisher: Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Volume 11, Vienna, 1895 (24 volumes 1894-1905).
    2nd revised and expanded edition in two volumes, Wien, A. Hölder, 1902-1904.
  • Die bisherigen Methoden der Elektrotherapie und ihre praktische Anwendung.
    In Zentralkomitee für das ärztliche Fortbildungswesen in Preussen. Elektrizität und Licht in der Medizin. Jena, 1909, pp. 1-25.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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