Adolph Strümpell

Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried Strümpell, from 1893 von Strümpell (29 June 1853 – 10 January 1925 ), was a Baltic German neurologist.

Life Strümpell was born in Neu-Autz, Courland (the present Jaunauce, Latvia), the son of the philosopher Ludwig Strümpell (1812–1899). It was published in more than thirty editions and was translated into numerous languages (into English in 1887).

Strümpell's wide-ranging research involved tabes dorsalis, spinal cord diseases, infantile paralysis, acromegalia, and progressive muscular atrophy. Most of his medical articles were published in the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, of which he was co-publisher along with Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), Friedrich Schultze (1848–1934) and Ludwig Lichtheim (1845–1928).