Friedrich Jolly (24 November 1844 – 4 January 1904) was a German

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and psychiatrist who was a native of

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, and the son of

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Philipp von Jolly Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (26 September 1809 – 24 December 1884) was a German physicist and mathematician. Born in Mannheim as the son of merchant Louis Jolly and Marie Eleonore Jolly, he studied science in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. A ...

(1809–1884). He studied medicine at

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under

Georg Meissner George Meissner (19 November 1829 – 30 March 1905) was a German anatomist and physiologist born in Hanover. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, where he worked closely with Rudolf Wagner (1806–1864). In 1851 he accompa ...

(1829–1905), and in 1867 received his doctorate at

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. In 1868 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Gudden (1824–1886) and

Hubert von Grashey Hubert von Grashey (30 October 1839 – 24 August 1914) was a German psychiatrist born in Grönenbach. He was son-in-law to psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden (1824–1886). He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg, Vienna and Berlin ...

(1839–1914) at the mental institution in

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, and in 1870 was an assistant to

Franz von Rinecker Franz von Rinecker (3 January 1811 – 21 February 1883) was a German pharmacologist and physician, born in Schesslitz near Bamberg. He studied medicine at Munich and Würzburg, earning his medical degree in 1834. In 1838 he became professor of ...

(1811–1883) at the Juliusspital in

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. In 1873 Jolly became director of the psychiatric clinic in

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, where he was named as successor to

Richard von Krafft-Ebing Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work '' Psychopath ...

(1840–1902). In 1890 he succeeded

Karl Friedrich Otto 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 Alexa ...

(1833–1890) as director of the neuropsychiatric clinic at the

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Charité. Jolly is remembered for his pioneer research of myasthenia gravis, including the

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aspects involving abnormal fatigue associated with the disease which forms the basis of Jolly's test. He is credited with coining the term ''myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica'' for the disorder. He was the author of an influential treatise on hypochondria that was published in

Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen Hugo (Wilhelm) von Ziemssen (13 December 1829 – 21 January 1902) was a German physician, born in Greifswald. He studied medicine at the universities of Greifswald, Berlin, and Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to the University of Erlangen ...

's "''Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie''". His "''Untersuchungen über den elektrischen Leitungswiderstand des menschlichen Körpers''" (1884) was fundamental to the study of electrical diagnostics.NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie
His grave is preserved in the

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''Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde'' (Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in

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, south of

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