Hugo Spatz (2 September 1888 – 27 January 1969) was a German
neuropathologist
Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole-body autopsies. Neuropathologists usually work in a department of anatomic pathology, but work closely with the clinic ...
. In 1937, he was appointed director of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. He was a member of the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
, and admitted to knowingly performing much of his controversial research on the brains of executed prisoners. Along with
Julius Hallervorden
Julius Hallervorden (21 October 1882 – 29 May 1965) was a German physician and neuroscientist.
Hallervorden was born in Allenburg, East Prussia (Druzhba, Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) to psychiatrist Eugen Hallervorden. He studied m ...
, he is credited with the discovery of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome (now referred to as
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), formerly called Hallervorden–Spatz syndrome, is a genetic degenerative disease of the brain that can lead to parkinsonism, dystonia, dementia, and ultimately death. Neurodegeneration in P ...
). Hugo Spatz's ''
Oberarzt'' (senior resident or attending physician), 1937–1939,
Richard Lindenberg
Richard Lindenberg (1911-1992) was a physician and pathologist, a Luftwaffe Captain during World War II, later Chief Neuropathologist of the State of Maryland. He testified before the Rockefeller Commission on the death of President John F. Kennedy ...
, became chief neuropathologist of the State of Maryland.
See also
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List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
This article lists medical eponyms which have been associated with Nazi human experimentation or Nazi politics. While normally eponyms used in medicine serve to honor the memory of the physician or researcher who first documented a disease or pione ...
References
1888 births
1969 deaths
Nazi human subject research
Physicians in the Nazi Party
Max Planck Institute directors
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