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Apr 13, 1840 Prague, Czech Republic Died on 20 Oct 1894 (aged 54)
Austrian neuroantomist and ophthalmologist
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About Ludwig Mauthner
- Ludwig Mauthner (April 13, 1840 – October 20, 1894) was an Austrian neuroanatomist and ophthalmologist who was a native of Prague. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1861.
- In 1864 he was a privatdozent of ophthalmology, later becoming a professor at the University of Innsbruck (1869).
- In 1877 he resigned his position at Innsbruck, afterwards returning to Vienna as a lecturer.
- Later he was appointed assistant director of the Allgemeine Poliklinik, and in 1894 attained the chair of ophthalmology at the university. In 1859, while still a student, Mauthner described a fibrous structure in the spinal cord of fishes that contained two large cell bodies in the animals' metencephalon.
- These cells were to become known as Mauthner cells, and are known to exist in amphibians as well as in fish.
- Mauthner cells have large-diameter axons that run down the length of the spinal cord. Mauthner wrote numerous treatises in the field of ophthalmology, including Die sympathischen Augenleiden, a book that was translated into English in 1881 as The sympathetic diseases of the eye.
- He was also the first to describe choroideremia.
