Moritz Heinrich Romberg

Moritz Heinrich Romberg (11 November 1795 – 16 June 1873) was a German physician and neurologist who published a classic multi-volume textbook between 1840 and 1846.

It was in Berlin that Romberg spent the rest of his life, eventually making significant contributions in the field of neurology.

[2] He described what is now known as "Romberg's sign" in his original account of tabes dorsalis (a disease caused by syphilis damaging the back of the spinal cord).

The unsteadiness with eyes closed (sensory ataxia), relates to loss of sense of position in the legs and feet that are normally compensated for by the patient who uses vision to provide that information.

[4] Edward Henry Sieveking translated Romberg's Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen into English in 1853.