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Classical neurologists of the 19th century

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Adolph Strümpell

Adolph Strümpell (Ernst Adolph G.G. von Strümpell, 1853–1925) was a German neurologist who helped establish neurology as a discipline, first described ankylosing spondylitis and hereditary spastic paraplegia, and wrote an influential internal medicine textbook.

Ernő Jendrassik

Ernő Jendrassik (1858–1921) was a Hungarian internist and neurologist, professor, and Academy member who described in 1885 the Jendrassik maneuver, a reflex-reinforcement technique still used in neurological examination.

Ernst Alexander Homén

Ernst Alexander Homén (1851–1926) was a Finnish physician and pathologist, professor at Helsinki, who founded clinical neurology in Finland and first described Wilson's disease in 1890.

Ernst von Leyden

Ernst von Leyden (Ernst Viktor von Leyden, 1832–1910) was a German internist, professor in Berlin, who discovered Charcot–Leyden crystals and treated Bismarck and Tsar Alexander III.

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo

Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo (Григорий Иванович Россолимо; 1860–1928) was a Russian neurologist and psychiatrist known for the Rossolimo toe-flexion reflex and for founding Russia's first children's nervous-disease clinic at his own expense in 1911.

Hermann Oppenheim

Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described the Oppenheim reflex, amyotonia congenita, and dystonia musculorum deformans, and wrote the standard German neurology textbook of 1894.

Johann Hoffmann (neurologist)

Johann Hoffmann (1857–1919) was a German neurologist who spent his career at Heidelberg and is known for Werdnig–Hoffmann disease, Hoffmann's syndrome, and the finger-flexion Hoffmann sign.

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Babinski (1857–1932) was a French neurologist of Polish descent, the favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, who described the Babinski sign in 1896 and coined terms like anosognosia.

Luis Barraquer Roviralta

Luis Barraquer Roviralta (Lluís Barraquer i Roviralta, 1855–1928) was a Spanish physician considered the founder of neurology in Catalonia, known for Barraquer-Simons syndrome and Barraquer's reflex.

Pierre Marie

Pierre Marie (1853–1940) was a French neurologist and favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot who gave the first clinical description of acromegaly and attacked the doctrine that Broca's area is the seat of speech.

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921) was a German neurologist, often called the founding father of German neurology, known for Erb's palsy, electrodiagnosis, the knee jerk, and linking tabes to syphilis.

William Broadbent

Sir William Henry Broadbent (1835–1907) was an English physician and neurologist at St Mary's Hospital, London, known for Broadbent's hypothesis, Broadbent's sign, and royal service to Edward VII.

William Gowers (neurologist)

Sir William Richard Gowers (1845–1915) was a British neurologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, whose Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System became the "Bible of Neurology".