Ludwig Merzbacher

Ludwig Merzbacher (9 February 1875 – 30 October 1942) was a German neuropathologist and psychiatrist born in Florence, Italy.

During this time period, he also spent several months in Munich, conducting research in the laboratory of Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915).

[1] In 1910 Merzbacher moved to Argentina, where he was appointed head of the laboratory in the psychiatric clinic at Buenos Aires.

From 1914 to 1919 he was in charge of the department of pathological anatomy at the Clínica Modelö, and at the beginning of 1924, he was chief physician at the "German hospital" in Buenos Aires.

[2] He is remembered for his pathological studies of a dysmyelinating central nervous system disorder that is now referred to as "Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease" (PMD).