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- Nun, Max
MaxNonne
Max nun
(Prof. Dr.)
* 13.01.1861, Hamburg
† 12.08.1959, estate Dwerkaten near Lütjensee (Schleswig-Holstein)
neurologist
He is a grandson of Dr. Carl Ludwig Nun, who has also made history as "Pestalozzi of Thuringia". His father Edwin Nunne was a merchant and manufacturer. As a child he experiences the enthusiasm for the founding of the German Empire in 1871. The ambitious Max Nonne lays the best high school graduation of the year at the Johanneum in Hamburg in 1879. His grandfather (maternal) Karl Kraft has headed the educational institution for more than three decades.
In 1895, Nun marries Henny Heye, from a respected factory family. They have three daughters, their only son died in 1918 on the eastern front.
After completing high school he studies the first four semesters in Heidelberg and is a member of the Hamburger Gesellschaft, from summer 1881 in Freiburg, Berlin and again in Heidelberg. He graduated with the work about the etiology of Pfortathrombose 1884 Dr. med. with summa cum laude. He works as a medical assistant in Heidelberg, undertakes a scientific visit to France. He settled in 1889 as a general practitioner and specialist in neuropathic diseases at the Hamburg-Eppendorf hospital. In 1890 he was appointed head of the internal department and in 1896 became head of the second internal department (the later neurological clinic), where he remains until his retirement. He is expanding the clinic as a university hospital (founded in 1919 by the University of Hamburg), which has become an international center of neuropathy. He is instrumental in making neurology an independent discipline. In 1913 he was awarded the title of titular professor, and in 1925 he was transformed into a regular full professorship. He enjoys a high international reputation, undertakes lecture tours in Europe, South America and the USA.
As Consiliarus he was summoned in two (secret) missions in the spring and early summer of 1923 to the sickbed of the Creator of the Soviet Empire, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. - In 1931 he chaired the opening session of the 1st International Congress of Neurologists in Bern. - He falls victim in the Third Reich of the National Socialist "rejuvenation" of the teaching staff and must divorce from the service.
The main area of work has been the neurolues, the syphilis of the nervous system. He soon recognized the importance of CSF detection for the diagnosis of syphilitic and other organic nervous diseases (nun-apelt reaction). He has developed studies on the pathogenesis of funicular myelosis, which he classified as degenerative and non-inflammatory diseases. He revises and clarifies the inaccurate term of myelitis. He is intensively examining diagnoses and therapies of spinal cord tumors. Fundamental is his research on spinal cord compression ( Nunne-Froin syndrome ). He is a major researcher in the detection of a hereditary form of cerebellar ataxia ( Nonne Marie Disease ) and hereditary trophic edema of the extremities (Nunne-Milroy-Meige syndrome ). Other focal points of his work have been multiple sclerosis and the damage to the nervous system caused by alcohol.
He is a member and honorary member of a large number of international companies and has received high medical awards.
Controversial is his attitude to the "destruction of completely worthless mentally dead" . He writes in a memorandum: "But it should be given to rational enlightenment the task of making the public mature in the notion that the removal of the totally mentally dead is not a crime, no immoral act, no emotional brutality, but a permitted, useful act is. "
works
- Syphilis and nervous system. A manual. - 1902 (English 1913, Spanish 1924/25)
- therapist. Experience at d. War neuroses in the years 1914 - 1918. In: K. Bonhoeffer (ed.), Handbook of Medical Experiences in the World War. - 1914/1918 IV
- mental and nervous diseases. - 1922, p. 102 - 121; The pseudotumor cerebri. In: New German Surgery, XII
- The General Surgery of Brain Diseases, Part II 1914, pp. 105-152; Position u. Tasks d. Doctor in d. Treatment d. Alcoholism, Üb. Drinking Hospitals, 1904; Beginning and end Goal of my life, memories, 1971, 31976; numerous Aufss. (among others: special edition in the library of the Medical Association of Hamburg). - Mithg .: Dt. Zs. F. Nervenheilkde. (1925-44); - Co-worker: H. Oppenheim, Lehrb. d. Nervous diseases f. Doctors u. Students, 1894, 71923
In his autobiography, beginning and end of my life , he also writes down memories of Hildburghausen and of the nuns.
Memories of Max Nun
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1861 - 1959 (98 years)
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