Ernst Sträussler

Ernst Sträussler (June 17, 1872, Ungarisch-Hradisch – July 11, 1959, Vienna) was an Austrian neuropathologist born in the Moravian city of Ungarisch-Hradisch.

In 1895 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna, and afterwards worked at the psychiatric clinic of Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940). In 1907 he was habilitated for psychiatry and neurology in Prague, where in 1915 he attained the title of professor extraordinary. In 1919 he returned to Vienna.^[1]

Sträussler is remembered for his work in forensic psychiatry, as well as his research involving the histopathology of the central nervous system.^[1] With neurologist Georg Koskinas (1885–1975) he performed important studies involving malaria inoculations as a type of therapy for progressive general paresis.^[2]

In 1936 with neurologists Josef Gerstmann (1887–1969) and Ilya Scheinker (1902–1954), he described a rare prion disease that is usually regarded as a variant of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Today this condition is known as Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS).^[3]

Bibliography

• Anlage- und Bildungsfehler des Centralnervensystems, Anlagekrankheiten, Missbildungen, Heredodegeneration. Handbuch der Neurolologie des Ohres. Volume 2, 1. Berlin and Wien, 1928.
• Gerstmann, Josef; Sträussler, Ernst; Scheinker, I. (December 1935). "Über eine eigenartige hereditär- familiäre Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie (in German). 154 (1): 736–62. doi:10.1007/BF02865827. S2CID 86904496.

References

1. Ernst Sträussler @ Who Named It
2. Triarhou LC (December 2005). "Georg N. Koskinas (1885-1975) and his scientific contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the human brain". Brain Research Bulletin. 68 (3): 121–39. doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.08.012. PMID 16325012. S2CID 7616350.
3. A Dictionary of Psychology by Andrew M. Colman