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Paul Robert Bing

Born  1878-05-05
Died  1956-03-15

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German-Swiss neurologist, born May 5, 1878, Strassburg; died March 15, 1956, Basel.

Biography of Paul Robert Bing

Paul Robert Bing studied medicine at the University of Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1902. He went abroad for further training and was an intern in Frankfurt am Main and in Paris, where he worked with Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849-1917), in London with Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916), and in Berlin.

Bing settled as a neurologist in Basel, was appointed lecturer at the University of Basel in 1907, became extraordinary professor in 1918, and also exercised the office of director of the neurological ambulatory and laboratory. He became professor and chief of the department of neurology in 1932. In 1908 he established Schweizer Neurologische Gesellschaft.

Bing wrote a book on neurology and many papers. His principal contributions to neurology were his studies on the spinocerebellar tract which he commenced with Dejerine. His textbook went into nine editions and was translated into six languages. He had a fondness for medical history and wrote on the history of epilepsy described by Hippocrates,

From 1919 Bing was the publisher of the Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Zurich.

We thank Detlef E. Rosenow, M.D., M.Sc., Germany, for information submitted.

Bibliography

  • Kompendium der topischen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksdiagnostik.
    Berlin & Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1909. 3rd edition, Berlin/Wien, 1917.
    7th edition, expanded and revised, 1927:
  • Kompendium der topischen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksdiagnostik. Kurzgefaßte Anleitung zur klinischen Lokalisation der Erkrankungen und Verletzungen der Nervenzentren.
    8th edition, revised, 1930.
    14th edition (final before his death), Basel, Benno Schwabe & Co. Verlag, 1953.
    Translated into English, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Hungarian.
  • Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten. Berlin & Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg 1913.
    Later editions as:
  • Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten für Studierende und praktische Ärzte, in 30 Vorlesungen. 1924, 1932, 1947.
    4th edition, 1931; 8th edition, 1947.
    9th edtion (final before his death), Basel, Benno Schwabe & Co. Verlag, 1952.
    Translated into English, French, Greek, Russian, Spanish, and Hungarian.
  • Gehirn und Auge (nach einem im Oktober 1913 vor dem Verein rheinisch-westfälischer Augenärtze in Düsseldorf abgehaltenen Fortbildungskurs).
    Wiesbaden, Verlag von J. Bergmann, 1914.
    2nd edition:
  • Gehirn und Auge. Kurzgefasste Darstellung der physiopathologischen Zusammenhänge zwischen beiden Organen, sowie der Augensymptome bei Gehirnkrankheiten.
    München, Verlag von J. F. Bergmann, 1923.
    3rd edition:
  • Gehirn und Auge. Grundriss der Ophthalmo-Neurologie.
    With Roland Brückner. Basel, Benno Schwabe & Co, 1954.
    Roland Brückner was head of the department of ophthalmology in Basel.
  • A Textbook of nervous Diseases for Students and Practising Physicians in Thirty Lectures.
    New York: Rebman Company, 1915. English translation by Charles L. Allen, M.D.
  • Ein neues Zeichen organisch bedingter Spastizität: Der paradoxe
    Fussgelenkreflex.

    Korrespondenzblatt für Schweizer Ärzte, Basel, volume 15, 1918.
  • Zur diagnostischen Bedeutung der Varietäten des Babinskischen Reflexes.
    Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Zurich, 1918, volume 3.
  • Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten für Studierende und Ärzte in 30 Vorlesungen.
    Vierte, vollständig neubearbeitete Auflage. Berlin/Wien, 1932. 8 + 570 pages.
  • Compendium of Regional Diagnosis in Lesions of the Brain and Spinal Cord, a Concise Introduction to the Principles of oicalization of Diseases and Injuries of the Nervous System.
    St. Louis: The C.V- Mosby Co., 1940.
  • A. Gigon:
    Zum Heimgang von Professor Dr. Robert Bing.
    Bulletin der Schweizerischen Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften, Basel, April 1956, 12 (1): 91-92.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, and Detlef E. Rosenow, M.D., M.Sc., both Germany, for information submitted.

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