Moritz Benedikt

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Moritz Benedikt
criminal anthropology
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician, Professor
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
Sub-specialtieselectrotherapeutics and neuropathology

Moritz Benedikt also spelt Moriz (4 July 1835, in

neurologist
who worked in Austria-Hungary.

Early life and education

He was born in Eisenstadt in Hungary. He got his medical education in Vienna, where he studied under Hyrtl, Briicke, Skoda, Oppolzer, Rokitansky and other well-known teachers, and qualified in 1859.

Career

He was an instructor and professor of neurology at the University of Vienna. Benedikt was a physician with the Austrian army during the Second Italian War of Independence (1859) and the Austro-Prussian War.

Benedikt was a specialist in the fields of

oculomotor paralysis with contralateral tremor and hemiparesis caused by a lesion involving the red nucleus and corticospinal tract in the midbrain tegmentum
.

Legacy

Benedikt is remembered today for his controversial research in

criminal anthropology. He performed numerous cephalometric
studies, and postulated that there were specific differences between "normal" and "criminal brains". He explained his research on the subject in a book titled "Anatomical Studies upon the Brains of Criminals" (title of English translation).

Benedikt is credited for coining the word "darsonvalisation" to describe

(1851–1940).

Benedikt also took an interest in dowsing (radiesthesia), writing two books on this subject Leitfaden der Rutenlehre (eng. Guideline to use of Divining Rods) and Ruten- und Pendellehre (eng. Instructions in Diving Rods and Pendulums)

Publications

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Darsonvalization". Medical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 April 2017. Sources which cite power [sic] of 100–200 mA should be disregarded; this implies power in the order of kilowatts.