Ernst Siemerling (September 9, 1857 – January 6, 1931) was a German

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and

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born in Müssow near

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. In 1882 he obtained his medical doctorate from the

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. In 1883-84 he was an assistant at the psychiatric clinic at Halle, and afterwards an assistant to

Karl Westphal Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (23 March 1833, in Berlin – 27 January 1890, in Kreuzlingen) was a German psychiatrist from Berlin. He was the son of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800–1879) and Karoline Friederike Heine and the father of Alexan ...

(1833-1890) at the

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psychiatric clinic. In 1888 he became habilitated for neurology and psychiatry, later being appointed professor and director of the psychiatric clinic at the

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(1893). In 1900 he accepted a similar position at the

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, where he remained until his retirement in 1926. In 1923, with

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. He was bor ...

(1885-1964), he described

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(ALD), a rare disorder that is sometimes referred to as " Siemerling-Creutzfeldt Disease". With

Oswald Bumke Oswald Bumke (25 September 1877 – 5 January 1950) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist. Family Bumke's mother, Emma (1850 - 1914), was the daughter of a factory owner. His father, Albert Bumke (1843-1892), was a physician and assistant ...

(1877-1950), he was editor of the ''Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten'', and with

Otto Binswanger Otto Ludwig Binswanger (; ; 14 October 1852 in Scherzingen, Münsterlingen – 15 July 1929 in Kreuzlingen) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist who came from a famous family of physicians; his father was founder of the Kreuzlingen Sanatori ...

(1852-1929), was co-author of ''Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie'', a textbook on psychiatry that was published in several editions.

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.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Siemerling, Ernst German neurologists German psychiatrists 1857 births 1931 deaths People from Vorpommern-Greifswald Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Kiel History of psychiatry