Łucja Frey

Łucja Frey or Łucja Frey-Gottesman (November 3, 1889, in Lwów – 1942?) was a Polish-Jewish physician and neurologist, known for describing the syndrome later named after her. She was one of the first female academic neurologists in Europe. Frey perished during the Holocaust in 1942 in Lwów Ghetto aged 53.

Life Łucja Frey was born on November 3, 1889, in Lwów, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as the daughter of the building contractor Szymon Symcha Frey and his wife, Dina (née Weinreb) Frey and her family were Jewish. Swedish, and English. These publications repeated fragmentary and scarce facts from Eufemiusz Herman's classic monograph about Polish neurologists. New facts about her tragic life were published in Mirjam Moltrecht's biography. or "Lucie" ) in many textbooks and dictionaries. Dates of birth and death of Austrian physician and physiologist Maximilian Ruppert Franz von Frey (1852-1932) were sometimes mistakenly given as hers. It was not the very first description of this constellation of symptoms. Frey's predecessors were Kastremsky (1740), Duphenix (1757), Barthez (1806), Dupuy (1816), Brown-Sequard (1849), Baillarger (1853), Henle (1855), Berard (1855), Bergounhioux (1859), Rouyer (1859), Botkin (1875), Parkes Weber (1897), New and Bozer (1922) and Lipsztat (1922). Both Brown-Sequard and Henle reported their own symptoms. and in 1932 by Bassoe. In recognition of earlier descriptions of this syndrome, it is also sometimes called Baillarger's syndrome, Frey-Baillarger syndrome or Dupuy syndrome.

Besides this important work, Frey published papers on the effects of vegetable poisons on spinal cord degeneration, brain stem topography, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Charcot joints, aneurysms of the plexus of the medulla, cysts of brain ventricles, clivus tumors, frontal lobe tumors and retrosplenial tumors.