Obersteiner, Heinrich#
Obersteiner, Heinrich, b. Vienna, Nov. 13, 1847, d. Vienna, Nov. 19, 1922, neurologist and psychiatrist. Founded the Neurological Department at Vienna University, headed the sanatorium in the 19th district of Vienna that his father had founded, worked on the lymphatic spaces (named after him) around the nerve cells in the brain and the cerebral blood vessels.
Works#
Anleitung beim Studium des Baues der nervoesen Central-Organe, 1888; Die Lehre vom Hypnotismus, 1893; Die progressive allg. Paralyse, 1908; Arbeiten aus dem Neurolog. Inst., 22 vols., 1892ff. (ed.).Literature#
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