!!!Meynert, Theodor

b. Dresden (Germany), June 15, 1833, 
d. Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), May 31, 1892 psychiatrist; son 
of Hermann Guenther  Meynert. Professor at the University of Vienna 
(1870), member of the supreme committee of experts for the Ministry of 
Health. Fundamental research on the anatomy and functioning of the 
brain, established the anatomy of the cerebral cortex. Taught that 
pathological cerebral anatomy should serve as a basis for psychiatry 
and the treatment of mental diseases.

!Publications
Der Bau der Grosshirnrinde und seine oertl. 
Verschiedenheit, 1868; Psychiatrie, Klinik der Erkrankungen des 
Vorderhirns, 1884.

!Literature
D. Stockert-Meynert, T. M. und seine Zeit, 1930; E. 
Lesky, Die Wr. Medizin. Schule im 19. Jh., %%sup 2/%1978; NDB.



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