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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Epileptic Disord. 2016 Sep 1;18(Suppl 2):3–10. doi: 10.1684/epd.2016.0834

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Heinrich Unverricht (1853–1912). Bust erected in 1914 at Magdeburg University. During his short tenure at Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), which he left because of the Russification policies of the occupying forces, Heinrich Unverricht described a family with “Myoclonie”, i.e. with the condition now named after him, “Unverricht-Lundborg disease”. He was a prolific internist who also described other conditions (polymyositis and pneumonia). His contribution is regarded as the founding description of progressive myoclonus epilepsy.