Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke

Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French medical doctor known for her work in neuroanatomy. She was the first female medical intern to work in a hospital in Paris. She was a recipient of the Officier de la Légion d'honneur and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

Dejerine-Klumpke discovered Klumpke paralysis, which is named after her.

Klumpke says her parents grew apart in her mother's absence, After her divorce, Tolle took her children to Bad Cannstatt, Germany, and then Lausanne, Switzerland. Klumpke says that her mother suggested that she study medicine, and moved their family to Paris in October 1877 to facilitate this. Because of the petitions of Blanche Edwards-Pillet, she was able to publish this thesis in 1885, and in 1886 she won the Godard Prize of the Academy of Medicine. She was also an author or co-author on more than 56 papers between the years of 1885–1926.

Charcot died in 1893, and his position as chair of neurology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital was given to Fulgence Raymond. After Raymond's death in 1910, Klumpke became chair.

When Dejerine died in 1917, Marie became chair. He gave Dejerine-Klumpke 15 days to clear out her husband's documents and leave. She instead transferred all of Dejerine's materials from the neurology department to the pathology department, and started the Dejerine Foundation with their daughter Yvonne Sorrel-Dejerine to preserve Dejerine's work.

Dejerine-Klumpke then worked as a medical officer in the Hôtel National des Invalides, where she earned the French Medal of Honor, and was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honour

In popular culture Klumpke and her sisters - especially the astronomer Dorothea Klumpke - were featured in society articles in newspapers of the early 1900s as members of a "gifted family" and "the most remarkable group of sisters in the world".

Passion Neurologie: Jules et Augusta Dejerine, a book by Michel Fardeau, focuses on the love affair between Augusta Klumpke and Jules Dejerine.

As one of the earliest female neurologists, Klumpke is featured in two neurologically themed educational card games, The Plexus and Endowed Chairs: Neurology.

Selected works Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier: étude clinique et anatomo-pathologique Anatomie des Centres Nerveux (with Joseph Jules Dejerine) Sémiologie des affections du système nerveux (with Joseph Jules Dejerine)