Education
He studied medicine at the University of Munich as a pupil of Hubert von Grashey, obtaining his doctorate in 1894.
He studied medicine at the University of Munich as a pupil of Hubert von Grashey, obtaining his doctorate in 1894.
He specialized in research of apraxia, depression and obsessive behavior disorders. He later worked as an assistant to Carl Wernicke at Breslau (1894-1898), followed by service as a senior physician under Eduard Hitzig at the University of Halle. In 1903 he succeeded Theodor Ziehen as a full professor of psychiatry at the University of Utrecht.
"Heilbronner"s sign": (Heilbronner thigh) - In cases of organic paralysis, a flattening and broadening of the thigh when the patient lies supine on a hard surface.