!!!Economo von San Serff, Constantin Alexander Freiherr von

b. Braila (Rumania), Aug. 21, 1876, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 21, 1931, neurologist and brain researcher; J.  
Wagner-Jauregg´s favorite student; lecturer from 1913, professor 
of psychiatry and neurology from 1921. In 1917 E. documented epidemic 
encephalitis, discovered the chewing, swallowing and sleep centres in 
the brain (Ueber den Schlaf, 1925) and wrote the "Atlas der 
Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde" (1925), promoted the collection and 
study of outstanding brains, founded the Institute for Brain Research 
in 1931. E. was also an outstanding pilot, one of Austria's first 
sport pilots, and from 1910 president of the Austrian Aeroclub.

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Further __publication:__ Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten 
und ihre Behandlung, 1929.

!Literature
I. Fischer (ed.), Biographisches Lexikon der 
hervorragenden Aerzte der letzten 50 Jahre, vol. 1, 1932; OeBL.



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