Alfred Fuchs


Alfred Fuchs was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
He studied medicine at the universities of Prague and Vienna, receiving his medical doctorate in 1894. He worked at the sanatorium in Purkersdorf, and later served as an assistant to Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Julius Wagner-Jauregg in Vienna. In 1905 he obtained his habilitation and in 1912 became an honorary associate professor. Up until the time of his death, he was associated with work done at Obersteiner's institution in Döbling.
He made contributions in his research of cerebrospinal fluid and his studies involving the measurement of pupil size. His name is associated with the Fuchs-Rosenthalsche Zählkammer, a means for counting cells in cerebrospinal fluid.

Selected works

He also published several editions of Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia sexualis.