Karl Fürstner

Karl Fürstner (7 June 1848 - 25 April 1906) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Strasburg, Uckermark.

In 1872 he was an assistant at the pathological institute of the University of Greifswald, and afterwards worked under Karl Westphal (1833-1890) in the psychiatric department at the Berlin-Charité.

He kept this position until 1890, when he became professor of nervous and mental diseases at the University of Strasbourg.

His work involved studies of progressive paralysis, the localization of brain tumors, and research of disorders that included postpartum psychosis, gliosis of the cerebral cortex and hemorrhagic pachymeningitis.

Among his written works was his graduate thesis, Zur Streitfrage über das Othaematom, of which he discusses "othematoma" (hematoma of the outer ear).