Károly Schaffer

Károly Schaffer
Károly Schaffer
	Károly Schaffer
Born	September 7, 1864; Vienna
Died	October 16, 1939 (aged 75)
Nationality	Hungarian
	Scientific career
Fields	anatomy ; neurology

Károly Schaffer (September 7, 1864, Vienna – October 16, 1939, Budapest)[1] was a Hungarian anatomist and neurologist. He was born in Vienna. The axon projection from CA3 to CA1 neurons in hippocampus, Schaffer collateral, is named after him.

He was involved in the early studies of Tay–Sachs disease.[2]

Authored Books

Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditär-systematischen Nervenkrankheiten (Berlin, 1926)
Az elmebetegségek és kapcsolatos idegbetegségek kórtana (Pathology of mental diseases and their related nervous disorders. Budapest, 1927)
Anatomische Wesenbestimmung der hereditär-organischen Nerven-Geisteskrankheiten (With Dezsö Miskolczy. Szeged, 1936)
Histopathologie des Neurons (Budapest-Leipzig, 1938)

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References

In reply to an e-mail query as to the pronunciation of the "a" in "Schaffer" and as to which syllable in "Schaffer" should have the stronger accent, Gabor Gazdag, MD, replied in March, 2011, "The original Hungarian pronunciation of Prof. Schaffer's name is closest to the "u" in the word "pronunciation." The accent in Hungarian is always on the first syllable of the word."
Baran B, Bitter I, Fink M, Gazdag G, Shorter E (December 2007). "Károly Schaffer and his school: The birth of biological psychiatry in Hungary, 1890–1940". Eur. Psychiatry. 23 (6): 449–456. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.003. PMC 3711800. PMID 18078742.

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155841/http://www.kereso.hu/yrk/Ryrgenwm/13218 (in Hungarian)

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[1] In reply to an e-mail query as to the pronunciation of the "a" in "Schaffer" and as to which syllable in "Schaffer" should have the stronger accent, Gabor Gazdag, MD, replied in March, 2011, "The original Hungarian pronunciation of Prof. Schaffer's name is closest to the "u" in the word "pronunciation." The accent in Hungarian is always on the first syllable of the word."

[pmid18078742-2] Baran B, Bitter I, Fink M, Gazdag G, Shorter E (December 2007). "Károly Schaffer and his school: The birth of biological psychiatry in Hungary, 1890–1940". Eur. Psychiatry. 23 (6): 449–456. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.003. PMC 3711800. PMID 18078742.