Friedrich Jolly was a German neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

 and psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

 who was a native of Heidelberg

Heidelberg

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, and the son of physicist

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

 Philipp von Jolly

Philipp von Jolly

Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly was a German physicist and mathematician.Born in Mannheim as the son of merchant Louis Jolly and Marie Eleonore Jolly, he studied science in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. After his studies, he was appointed professor of mathematics in Heidelberg in 1839 and in...

 (1809–1884).

He studied medicine at Göttingen under Georg Meissner

Georg Meissner

Georg Meissner was a German anatomist and physiologist born in Hannover.He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, where he worked closely with Rudolf Wagner . In 1851 he accompanied Wagner and Theodor Billroth on an expedition to Trieste, where he performed scientific studies of torpedo...

 (1829–1905), and in 1867 received his doctorate at Munich

Munich

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. In 1868 he became assistant to Bernhard von Gudden

Bernhard von Gudden

Johann Bernhard Aloys von Gudden was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist born in Kleve.In 1848 he earned his doctorate from the University of Halle, and became an intern at the asylum in Siegburg under Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi...

 (1824–1886) and Hubert von Grashey (1839–1914) at the mental institution in Werneck

Werneck

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, and in 1870 was an assistant to Franz von Rinecker

Franz von Rinecker

Franz von Rinecker was a German pharmacologist who was a native of Schesslitz from the district of Bamberg....

 (1811–1883) at the Juliusspital in Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

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In 1873 Jolly became director of the psychiatric clinic in Strassburg, where he became successor to Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

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 (1840–1902). In 1890 he succeeded Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) as director of the neuropsychiatric clinic at the Berlin

Berlin

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 Charité

Charité

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Jolly is remembered for his pioneer research regarding myasthenia gravis

Myasthenia gravis

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability...

, including the electrophysiological

Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology is the study of the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. It involves measurements of voltage change or electric current on a wide variety of scales from single ion channel proteins to whole organs like the heart...

 aspects involving abnormal fatigue associated with the disease which forms the basis of Jolly's test

Jolly's test

Jolly's test is a medical test used to distinguish the muscle weakness found in myasthenia gravis and Eaton-Lambert syndrome. Jolly's test is a type of electromyography which uses repeated stimulation of motor nerves to demonstrate the fatiguability found with repeated muscle contraction which is...

. He is credited with coining the term myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica for the disorder. He also wrote an influential treatise on hypochondria

Hypochondria

Hypochondriasis or hypochondria refers to excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. This debilitating condition is the result of an inaccurate perception of the body’s condition despite the absence of an actual medication condition...

 that was published in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen

Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen

Hugo von Ziemssen was a German physician, born at Greifswald. He studied there, at Berlin, and at Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to Erlangen as professor of pathology and director of the clinic, and in 1874 to Munich as director of the general hospital...

's (1829–1902) Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie.

His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church

Jerusalem's Church

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 and New Church

Deutscher Dom

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) in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg

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, south of Hallesches Tor

Hallesches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn)

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