!!!Exner-Ewarten, Siegmund von

Exner-Ewarten, Siegmund von, b. Vienna, April 5, 1846, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 5, 1926, physiologist, son of Franz Serafin  
Exner, husband of Emilie  Exner,father of Alfred von  Exner-Ewarten 
and Felix-Maria von  Exner-Ewarten. From 1874 professor of physiology 
at the University of Vienna. Localized centres of the human brain and 
played a leading role in reforming university regulations concerning 
medical studies. In 1904 founded the new Institute of Physiology in 
Vienna. initiated the establishment of the archives of phonogrammes of 
the Academy of Sciences and became famous for his animal experiments 
(e.g. bird flight and gliding). He especially dealt with the 
physiology of the central and peripheral nervous system and the 
experimental analysis of psychological reactions. From 1910 president 
of the medical Association in Vienna.

!Works
Ueber den Sehpurpur, 1877; Die Localisation der Functionen in 
der Grosshirnrinde des Menschen, 1881; Entwurf zu einer 
physiologischen Erklaerung der psychischen Erscheinungen, 1894.

!Literature
OeBL.


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