Albert Eulenburg (10 August 1840 – 3 July 1917) was a German

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born in

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Education

Born into a

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family, he studied medicine at the Universities of

, Bern and Zurich, earning his doctorate in 1861. Among his instructors were Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858), Ludwig Traube (1818–1876) and

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(1828–1870). Later he became a professor of pharmacology at the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...

, and in 1882, a professor of

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in Berlin.

Career

Eulenburg is remembered for his written works. His most ambitious work being the multi-volume ''Real-Encyclopädie der gesammten Heilkunde'', which was published in four editions between 1880 and 1914. Later in his career he became interested in the field of sexology, and was co-editor of the journal ''Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft''. In 1902 Eulenburg penned a work on

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, titled ''Sadismus und Masochismus'' (Sadism and Masochism).

Publications

Other principal writings by Eulenburg include: * ''Lehrbuch der functionellen Nervenkrankheiten auf Physiologischer Basis''. 1871, Page 712:

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. * ''Pathologie des Sympathicus''. Prize-winning paper, with Paul Guttmann (1834-1893). Berlin, 1873. * ''Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie und der therapeutischen Methodik''. with Simon Samuel (1833-1899). three volumes, Berlin/Vienna, 1898-1899. * ''Der Marquis de Sade''. Vortrag gehalten im Psychologischen Verein in Berlin. First published in the journal ''Zukunft'' on March 25, 1899. * ''Lehrbuch der klinischen Untersuchungsmethoden und ihrer Anwendung auf die specielle ärztliche Diagnostik''. with

Wilhelm Kolle Wilhelm Kolle (born 2 November 1868 in Lerbach near Osterode am Harz, died 10 May 1935) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist. He served as the second director of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy, succeeding its founder, the Nobel ...

(1868–1935) and Wilhelm Weintraud (1866–1920). Contains a number of treatises on methods of investigating the blood by Kolle and Ernst Grawitz (1860–1911), 1904–05.Bibliography
at Who Named It Many of his publications dealt with the physiological side of neurology, about which, he conducted studies involving the

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centers of the brain. He was the first to describe a rare neuromuscular condition known as

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, a disorder sometimes referred to as "Eulenburg's disease". In 1913, along with

Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician and sexologist. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Com ...

(1868–1935) and

Iwan Bloch Iwan Bloch (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, was a German dermatologist, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, and often called the first sexologist. Together with M ...

(1872–1922), he founded the ''Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Sexualwissenschaft und Eugenik''.

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