Jendrassik Ernő (7 June 1858 – 21 December 1921) was a Hungarian

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

best known for his research on

reflex In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus. Reflexes are found with varying levels of complexity in organisms with a nervous system. A reflex occurs ...

es, in particular, the

Jendrassik maneuver The Jendrassik maneuver is a medical maneuver wherein the patient clenches the teeth, flexes both sets of fingers into a hook-like form, and interlocks those sets of fingers together. The tendon below the patient's knee is then hit with a refl ...

. He was born in Kolozsvár,

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, to Jendrassik Jenő, who was a famous physician and professor of physiology. Jendrassik graduated from the University of Budapest in medicine in 1880. His first paper, ''Beiträge zur Lehre von den Sehnenreflexen'', was published in 1883 and earned him local and international recognition. It was also the beginning of his research on reflexes.

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* 1858 births 1921 deaths 19th-century Hungarian physicians 20th-century Hungarian physicians Physicians from Austria-Hungary {{Hungary-med-bio-stub