Max Nonne
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Max Nonne (born January 13, 1861, Hamburg - died 1959) was a German neurologist.
Max Nonne studied in Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Hamburg University in 1884. He was assistant physician in the medical clinic in Heidelberg under Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, in the surgical clinic in Kiel under Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch and in 1889 settled in Hamburg as a neurologist. That year became head physician in the department of internal medicine at the Red Cross Hospital, 1896 director of the department of neurology at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital.
Nonne became titular professor of neurology in 1913 and in 1919 received the teaching appointment for neurology at the newly founded University of Hamburg, where he became ordinarius in 1925.
Max Nonne was one of the four German physicians asked to investigate Vladimir Ilich Lenin during his final disease.
[edit] Associated eponyms:
- Nonne-Apelt reaction, sensitive method for demonstrating fibrine-globuline in liquor cerebrospinalis.
- Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease, chronic familial lymphoedema of the limbs.
