Károly Schaffer

Károly Schaffer (September 7, 1864, Vienna – October 16, 1939, Budapest)^[1] was a Hungarian anatomist and neurologist. He was born in Vienna. The axon projection from CA3 to CA1 neurons in hippocampus, Schaffer collateral, is named after him.

Károly Schaffer
Károly Schaffer
Born	September 7, 1864 Vienna
Died	October 16, 1939 (1939-10-17) (aged 75)
Nationality	Hungarian
Scientific career
Fields	anatomy neurology

He was involved in the early studies of Tay–Sachs disease.^[2]

Authored books

• Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditär-systematischen Nervenkrankheiten (Berlin, 1926)
• Az elmebetegségek és kapcsolatos idegbetegségek kórtana (Pathology of mental diseases and their related nervous disorders. Budapest, 1927)
• Anatomische Wesenbestimmung der hereditär-organischen Nerven-Geisteskrankheiten (With Dezsö Miskolczy. Szeged, 1936)
• Histopathologie des Neurons (Budapest-Leipzig, 1938)