Eduard Gamper (1887-1938): cases and accidents
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F22%3A10444356" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/22:10444356 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-021-10795-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00415-021-10795-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Eduard Gamper (1887-1938): cases and accidents
Original language description
Eduard Gamper (1887-1938) was Head of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the Charles University's German Faculty of Medicine in Prague. He had trained in Innsbruck, where he undertook groundbreaking work on the midbrain in an anencephalic child and in a series of patients who had died from Wernicke's encephalopathy. Gamper identified the mamillary bodies as key in the performance of declarative memory. Considered an expert in memory disorders, he was chosen by the Medical Faculty in Innsbruck to provide expert opinion on the notorious case of Philipp Halsmann, who was suspected of murdering his father. Details of the case remained unresolved and Gamper's opinion caused both professional and political controversy. When in Prague, Gamper made great efforts to improve patient care and clinical services, establishing a special ward for patients with neurological conditions. This task was not nearly completed, when he and his wife died after their car drove over a cliff into the Walchensee in Bavaria. Rumours surrounded his death: that Gamper had just examined Adolf Hitler; that he was a political victim; that the Gestapo were behind the accident. After an investigation of the available evidence, we can report that an unusual 22 cm of snow fell in the area of the Walchensee on April 20, 1938, the day of the Gampers' deaths. We were unable to find any evidence for foul play in what appears to have been a tragic accident.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Neurology
ISSN
0340-5354
e-ISSN
1432-1459
Volume of the periodical
269
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1802-1808
UT code for WoS article
000695384200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85114833230