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PROF. MORIZ BENEDIKT, a leading Austrian neurologist, was born at Eisenstadt in Hungary on July 6, 1835. His medical education was carried on in Vienna, where he studied under Hyrtl, Briicke, Skoda, Oppolzer, Rokitansky and other well-known teachers, and qualified in 1859. During the period 1861-75 he was chiefly concerned with electrotherapy and neuropathology. Afterwards he turned his attention to a comparative anatomical investigation of the brain in man and animals, and craniometric and psychological studies. In 1899 he was appointed professor of neurology in the Vienna medical faculty. In addition to a large number of articles on neuropathology, most of which were published in the Wiener medizinische Presse between 1869 and 1882, he wrote on anthropology, ophthalmology and otology. Like his contemporary, Charcot, he took a keen interest in art, and a few days before his death, which took place on April 14, 1920, at the age of eighty-five years, published an essay on Raphael. His name has been attached, at CharcotJs suggestion, to a syndrome characterised by oculomotor paralysis on one side with paresis and tremor of the upper extremity on the other.
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Prof. Moriz Benedikt. Nature 136, 15 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136015a0