1. Ludwig Edinger was an influential German anatomist and neurologist and co-founder of the University of Frankfurt.
10 Facts About Ludwig Edinger
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Ludwig Edinger's mother was the daughter of a physician from Karlsruhe.
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Ludwig Edinger was not ashamed that he started his career as a poor man.
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Ludwig Edinger studied medicine from 1872 to 1877 in Heidelberg and Strasbourg.
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Ludwig Edinger worked in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris and opened his own practice for neurology in Frankfurt am Main in 1883.
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In 1902, Ludwig Edinger received enough space to start his own neurological department.
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Ludwig Edinger's problems had eased in 1886, when he married Anna Goldschmidt, the daughter of an old family of traditional Jewish bankers in Frankfurt; she received a large inheritance in 1906.
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Ludwig Edinger died suddenly on 26 January 1918 in Frankfurt of a heart attack.
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Ludwig Edinger had left instructions for his brain to be examined in his institute.
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Ludwig Edinger is credited with coining the terms "gnosis" and "praxis".