Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus (3 April 1851 – 11 August 1942) was a German balneologist and neurologist who was a native of Rietberg. In 1874 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Würzburg, and afterwards served as an assistant to Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Runge (1835-1882) at the resort in

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. Later he worked as a balneologist at

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, Kreischa and Bad Oeynhausen.Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus
@ Who Named It In 1896 he received the title of ''Sanitätsrat'' (health advisor). Pelizaeus died in

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on 11 August 1942. In 1885 he provided the first description of a dysmyelinating central nervous system disorder that was to become known as " Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease", named in conjunction with

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(1875–1942).

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* ''This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article from the Polish Wikipedia.'' German neurologists 1851 births 1942 deaths People from Rietberg University of Würzburg alumni {{Germany-med-bio-stub