Ion N. Petrovici

Ion N. Petrovici was a German neurologist, born in Ploiesti, Romania, in August 1929 and dead in February 2021. He graduated in medicine from the University of Bucharest, trained in neurology under Arthur Kreindler and Vlad Voiculescu, and became a specialist in 1959. From 1964 to 1969 he headed pre-operative diagnosis at the neurosurgery clinic of the University of Bucharest under Constantin Arseni, with whom he co-wrote a 1965 book on vascular diseases of the brain and spinal cord. In 1969 he emigrated to Germany and worked in Cologne at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, became professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne in 1983, and directed the neurology department at Merheim Hospital from 1985 to 1994. He wrote on cerebrovascular disease, seizures, brain tumour therapy and hemispheric specialisation, and in 1962 described the alternating asphygmo-pyramidal syndrome in carotid occlusion.