Eduard Hitzig
German neurologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eduard Hitzig was a German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist of Jewish ancestry born in Berlin. Eduard was the son of Friedrich Hitzig and his grandfather had converted to Protestantism. He studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Würzburg under the instruction of famous men such as Emil Du Bois-Reymond , Rudolf Virchow , Moritz Heinrich Romberg , and Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal . He received his doctorate in 1862 and subsequently worked in Berlin and Würzburg. In 1875, he became director of the Burghölzli asylum, as well as professor of psychiatry at the University of Zurich. In 1885, Hitzig became a professor at the University of Halle where he remained until his retirement in 1903.
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