Friedrich Jolly

Friedrich Jolly (November 24, 1844 - April 1, 1904) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a native of Heidelberg, and the son of physicist Philipp von Jolly (1809-1884). He studied medicine at Göttingen under Georg Meissner (1829-1905), and in 1867 received his doctorate at Munich. In 1868 he became assistant to Bernhard von Gudden (1824-1886) and Hubert von Grashey (1839-1914) at the mental institution in Werneck, and in 1870 was an assistant to Franz von Rinecker (1811-1883) at the Juliusspital in Würzburg.

In 1873 Jolly became director of the psychiatric clinic in Strassburg, where he became successor to Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902). In 1890 he succeeded Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) as director of the neuropsychiatric clinic at the Berlin Charité.

Jolly is remembered for his pioneer research regarding myasthenia gravis, including the electrophysiological aspects involving abnormal fatigue associated with the disease. He is credited with coining the term myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica for the disorder. He also wrote an influential treatise on hypochondria that was published in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's (1829-1902) Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie.

Reference

 * Who Named It?; Friedrich Jolly

Friedrich Jolly