Friedrich Meggendorfer

Friedrich Meggendorfer (June 7, 1880 - February 12, 1953) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist who was a native of Bad Aibling, Bavaria.

Meggendorfer was an assistant to Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) in Munich, and later worked at the Friedrichsberg Psychiatric Hospital in Hamburg. From 1934 to 1945 he was a professor and director of the psychiatric clinic at Erlangen. During World War I he was stationed in Turkey as a medical assistant.

He performed important research of dementia, progressive paralysis and Huntington's disease, and in 1930 provided an early description of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the "Backer family" of northern Germany.

Selected publications

* "Gerichtliche Psychiatrie" (Judicial Psychiatry), 1931
* "Allgemeine und spezielle Therapie der Geistes und Nervenkrankheiten" (General and Special Treatment of Mental and Neurological Health), 1950

References

* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the Polish Wikipedia."
* [http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/66/1/213 Familial prion diseases: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal insomnia]