Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a cofounder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis. Cofounder of medical journals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie, member of Polish Academy of Learning. His name in medicine is linked to RedlichFlatau syndrome, FlatauSterling torsion dystonia , FlatauSchidler disease and Flataus law. His publications greatly influenced the developing field of neurology. He published a human brain atlas , wrote a fundamental book on migraine , established the localization principle of long fibers in the spinal cord , and with Sterling published an early paper on progressive torsion spasm in children and suggested that the disease has a genetic component.

He was born in 1868 in Pock, the son of Anna and Ludwik Flatau. In 1886 he graduated from high school in Pock . From 1886 Flatau attended medical school at the University of Moscow where he graduated eximia cum laude. In Moscow he was greatly influenced by the psychiatrist Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff and the neurologist Alexis Jakovlevich Kozhevnikof . Flatau became a medical doctor in 1892. He spent the years 18931899 in Berlin in the laboratories of Emanuel Mendel and in the University of Berlin under Wilhelm von WaldeyerHartz . In that time he worked together with Alfred Goldscheider , Ernst Viktor von Leyden , Hermann Oppenheim, Louis Jacobsohn, Ernst Remak and Hugo Liepmann. Even though he was offered a position of professorship of neurology in Buenos Aires he returned to Poland and in 1899 settled in Warsaw. He was married twice. He had two daughters, Anna and Joanna Flatau. His first wife Zofia and daughter Anna are described in book by Antoni Marianowicz. Some stories about

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