Hoche, Pia, Kirchhoff u.a. - RARITÄT Dissertationen u. Habilitationen bedeutender Neurowissenschaftler - 1867-1967

small bundle of university theses by notable neurologists

1. Theodor Kirchhoff
A contribution to aphasia in the sense of the localization of psychic functions.
Kiel 1877
medical dissertation by Theodor Kirchhoff (1853-1922), later director of the Psychiatric Clinic in Neustadt in Holstein. The referee was Arnold Heller, Professor of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy in Kiel. Kirchhoff discusses the theories of language localization on the basis of the patho-anatomical findings of a corpse
Original paperback, 15 pages

2. Alfred Hoche
Contributions to the knowledge of the anatomical behavior of the human spinal nerve roots in normal and pathologically altered states (in dementia paralytica)
Heidelberg 1891
Original paperback, 53 pages, 1 lithographic plate

3. Horst Eberhard Richter
Acoustic functional change in speech deafness.
From: Archiv für Psychiatrie und Zeitschrift für die ges. Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Vol. 196
Berlin 1957
the medical dissertation of the renowned psychoanalyst (1923-2011), who had already been awarded the Dr.phil. in 1949. Rare!
Original paperback, pp. 99-113

4. Karl Kleist
The changes of the spinal ganglion cells after the transection of the peripheral nerve and the posterior root.
in: Virchow's Archive for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine, edited by Johannes Orth, Volume 173 (Series XVII, Volume III), pp. 466-485
Berlin 1906

5. Friedrich Schultze
Contributions to the pathology and pathologic anatomy of the central nervous system,
Academic habilitation thesis submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg
Berlin 1867
Original paperback, 35 pages, 1 plate

6. Ernst Oppikofer
3 deaf-mute labyrinths: a contribution to the teaching of developmental disorders of the membranous labyrinth.
Wiesbaden 1902
Original paperback, 43 pages, 13 plates

7. Hans Werner Pia
Damage to the brainstem in space-occupying processes of the brain.
A contribution to the pathogenesis, clinic, and treatment of brain mass effect
Vienna 1957
Habilitation thesis of the famous neurosurgeon at the University of Giessen, where he held the regular professorship for neurosurgery from 1962
Original paperback, 182 pages, 77 figures

8. Julius Ludwig August Koch
On the brain of a bush-woman.
Inaugural dissertation for the medical and surgical doctorate under the presidency of Dr. Hubert v. Luschka
Tübingen 1867
J. L. A. Koch (1841-1908) later became director of the Württemberg State Lunatic Asylum at Zwiefalten; he became famous for his work on psychopathological inferiority (Ravensburg 1891-93). In this dissertation he vigorously argues that the brain of this African woman has nothing in common with an ape brain and clearly shows that this "bush-woman" (and all Africans) are human. In the 19th century, a number of Africans—slaves!—were brought to Europe where they were displayed and demeaned in various ways. The best known is surely Sarah Baartman of the Khoi people in South Africa, known as the Hottentot Venus
Original paperback, 26 pages