Heinrich Sachs

Heinrich Sachs (1863–1928) was a late 19th and early 20th century German neurologist and neuroanatomist best known for his atlas of the brain's white matter.

Scientific career Drawing of connections in the human brain, from Heinrich Sachs, The White Matter of the Human Cerebrum: Part I, 1892. Heinrich Sachs was born in Halberstadt, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, in 1863. He studied medicine in Berlin, graduating in 1885 with a dissertation on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. After practicing as a physician for a few years, he joined neuropathologist Carl Wernicke's laboratory at University Hospital, Breslau, where he studied spatial perception and gained a postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) in psychiatry and neurology in 1897.