Ludwig Türck [SEP] place of death
Ludwig Türck
Ludwig Türck (22 June 1810 – 25 February 1868) was an Austrian neurologist who was a native of Vienna.
In 1836 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, where in 1864 he became a full professor.
He is remembered for his pioneer investigations of the central nervous system, particularly his studies involving nerve fiber localization, direction and degeneration. His name is lent to the "bundle of Türck", which are uncrossed fibers forming a small bundle in the pyramidal tract. Today
, gastric autodigestion, the effect of insulin and other biologic processes.
During this time, significant progress was also made in the areas of microbiology and surgery. Carl Koller discovered the anesthetic effect of cocaine and Ludwig Türck, who later became the first tenured professor of laryngology, invented a laryngoscope and marked the birth of endoscopy. This first endoscope was continuously refined, and in 1879, the Nietze-Leiter-cystoscope, which is used to examine the urinary bladder, was presented in a meeting of the College of Physicians