Paul Julius Möbius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German neurologist
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Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany
About Paul Julius Möbius
- Paul Julius Möbius (January 24, 1853 – January 8, 1907) was a German neurologist born in Leipzig.Prior to entering the medical field in 1873, he studied philosophy and theology at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena and Marburg.
- After earning his medical doctorate in 1876, he enlisted in the army, attaining the rank of Oberstabsarzt (senior staff surgeon).
- After leaving the army, he returned to Leipzig, where he opened a private practice and worked as an assistant to neurologist Adolph Strümpell (1853-1925) at the university policlinic.
- In 1883 he obtained his habilitation for neurology. He was a prolific writer and is well known for publications in the fields of neurophysiology and endocrinology.
- Among his writings in psychiatry were psychopathological studies of Goethe, Rousseau, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
- He was also an editor of Schmidt's Jahrbücher der in- und ausländischen gesammten Medizin. Möbius made pioneer contributions towards the understanding of how some mental illnesses occur.
- He is credited for providing a distinction between exogenous and endogenous nerve disorders, and introduced ideas on the etiology of hysteria.
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