Category: Famous Physicians

International Giants in Otology: Robert Bárány

Robert Traynor Anatomy of the Ear / Audiology / Auditory Anatomy / Auditory Research / Famous Physicians / Inner Ear / Neurotology / Nobel Prize - Medicine / Otolaryngology / Otologists / Research in Hearing

According to Pearce (2007),  Magnus Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919) initiated the anatomical studies of the semicircular apparatus. The physiologist Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867) in 1825 had observed that when a pigeon’s horizontal semicircular canal was destroyed, it went on turning horizontally in a circle. Purkinje (1787–1869) proved that changing the head position induced vertigo in man.  …

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International Giants in Otology: Politzer

Robert Traynor Anatomy of the Ear / Audiology / Audiometry / Auditory Anatomy / Auditory Research / Auricular Muscle Strength / Differences in hearing / Ear Surgery / Facial Nerve / Famous Anatomists / Famous Otologists / Famous Physicians / German 19th Century Anatomists / German Anatomists / Hearing impairment / Hearing loss / Helmholtz / International Giants of Otology / Middle Ear / Middle Ear Mechanics / Middle Ear Physics / Otolaryngology / Otologists / Research in Hearing / Stapedius Muscle / Temporal Bone Studies / Tensor Tympani Muscle

Another major player in the development of 19th century otology was the Hungarian otologist, Adam Politzer (1835-1920).   Born to a wealthy Jewish family in 1835 in Alberti about 35 miles southeast of Budapest, young Adam was schooled by the founders of the Modern Medical School of Vienna  where special interest was taken in his development by two influential people, Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (1808–1871)…

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