Károly Schaffer (September 7, 1864, Vienna – October 16, 1939,

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and

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

. He was born in

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, is named after him. He was involved in the early studies of

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Authored Books

* ''Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditär-systematischen Nervenkrankheiten'' (Berlin, 1926) * ''Az elmebetegségek és kapcsolatos idegbetegségek kórtana'' (Pathology of mental diseases and their related nervous disorders. Budapest, 1927) * ''Anatomische Wesenbestimmung der hereditär-organischen Nerven-Geisteskrankheiten'' (With Dezsö Miskolczy. Szeged, 1936) * ''Histopathologie des Neurons'' (Budapest-Leipzig, 1938)

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155841/http://www.kereso.hu/yrk/Ryrgenwm/13218 ( in Hungarian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaffer, Karoly Hungarian anatomists Austrian anatomists Hungarian histologists Austrian histologists Hungarian neurologists Austrian neurologists Hungarian expatriates in Austria Scientists from Vienna 1864 births 1939 deaths