August Knoblauch (8 January 1863 in

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– 24 August 1919 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German neurologist. He was a nephew of chemist August Kekulé. He studied medicine and sciences at the universities of

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. In 1888 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under neurologist

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (30 November 1840 – 29 October 1921) was a German neurologist. He was born in Winnweiler, and died in Heidelberg. Academic career In 1864 he received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg, where for sev ...

. In 1898 he was named head of the city infirmary in Frankfurt, then in 1914 was named director of the neurological clinic at the University of Frankfurt am Main. In 1893 he was named first secretary at the Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt, where he later served as second director (from 1896) and first director (from 1899). He is best remembered for his research on the cognitive function regarding music; in 1888/90 he put forth a detailed diagrammatic model of music processing, and postulated the existence of nine disorders of music production and perception. He is credited with coining the term " amusia" — being defined as the inability to recognize musical tones or being unable to reproduce them. Knoblauch-Lichtheim Schema

Selected works

* ''Ueber Störungen der musikalischen Leistungsfähigkeit infolge von Gehirnläsionen'' (1888) – On disorders of musical ability as a result of brain lesions.
''Klinik und Atlas der chronischen Krankheiten des Zentralnervensystems''
(1909) – Clinic and atlas of chronic diseases of the central nervous system. * ''Die Allgemeine chirurgie der gehirnkrankheiten''; with

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, Korbinian Brodmann and

Alfred Hauptmann Alfred Hauptmann (born August 29, 1881 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, died April 5, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist. His most important contribution remained the article written in 1912 on the effectiv ...

, (1914) – General surgery associated with brain disorders. * ''Anatomie und Topographie des Gehirns und seiner Häute'' (1914).OCLC WorldCat
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knoblauch, August 1863 births 1919 deaths Physicians from Frankfurt Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Heidelberg University alumni German neurologists People from the Free City of Frankfurt