Major Appointments
Assistant to Wernicke (Breslau, Germany, 1895–1899)
Municipal Welfare for the Mentally Ill in Berlin
Assistant and Consultant for Psychiatric Hospital of Dalldorf
Director of Psychiatric Hospital in Herzberge (1914–1920)
Private Lecturer (University of Berlin, 1901–1905)
Professor (University of Berlin, 1905–1919)
Honorary Professor and Secret Medical Counselor (University of Berlin, 1919)
Major Honors and Awards
President of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases (1912–1916)
Landmark Clinical, Scientific, and Professional Contributions
The German neurologist and psychiatrist Hugo Karl Liepmann is best known for his work on apraxia. Although John Hughlings Jackson was the first to clearly define the syndrome of apraxia in 1861, he did not fully elucidate the concept. Liepmann coined the term “apraxia,” delineated associational cortical areas, and distinguished among three types of apraxia: (1) limb-kinetic (melokinetic), (2) ideomotor, and (3)...
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Prosje, M.A. (2018). Liepmann, Hugo Karl (1863–1925). In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_634
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