Published in:
01-09-2010 | Pioneers in Neurology
Bernhard Pollack (1865–1928)
Author:
Lazaros C. Triarhou
Published in:
Journal of Neurology
|
Issue 9/2010
Login to get access
Excerpt
Bernhard Pollack wrote the first standard reference on histological staining methods for the nervous system [
7]. He worked at Berlin’s First Anatomical Institute, headed by Wilhelm Waldeyer [
6], the Neuropsychiatric Institute of Emanuel Mendel [
1], the Institute for Infectious Diseases directed by the later Nobel laureate Robert Koch [
3], and at the research laboratory of the Eye Clinic with Paul Silex [
4,
8,
10]. He collaborated with Max Bielschowsky [
1] and Edward Flatau [
9], who called Pollack “the man with the great work on the nervous system”. …