Johann Hoffmann (neurologist)

Johann Hoffmann (28 March 1857 – 1 November 1919) was a German neurologist born in Hahnheim.

Johann Hoffmann (1857-1919)

He is remembered for describing Hoffmann's reflex and Werdnig–Hoffmann disease (now spinal muscular atrophy type 1). He is also known for the adult-onset hypothyroid myopathy, Hoffmann syndrome.^[1] He was educated at Worms and studied medicine at Heidelberg. He worked under Professor Wilhelm Erb, and succeeded him as head of neurology at Heidelberg.

Hoffmann died in Heidelberg.