Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt as German neuropathologist (1885–1964).
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt was born at Harburg in 1885. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Kiel University and University of Jena.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Kiel University and Charité.
The recorded fields of work are neurology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt died in 1964, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Kiel University and Charité
- Fields: neurology
