TY - JOUR
T1 - Rudolf Nieuwenhuys (11 June 1927-4 November 2024)
T2 - a scholarly life
AU - Bakker, Suzanne
AU - Ten Donkelaar, Hans J
AU - Voogd, Jan
AU - Nicholson, Charles
AU - Bannister, Lawrence H
AU - Medina, Loreta
AU - Desfilis, Ester
AU - Wullimann, Mario F
AU - Meek, Johannes
AU - Puelles, Luis
AU - Broere, Cees A J
AU - Turner, Robert
AU - Cerliani, Leonardo
AU - Glasser, Matthew F
N1 - © 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2025/6/8
Y1 - 2025/6/8
N2 - This collective eulogy by colleagues, co-authors and friends is a tribute to the work and life of Rudolf Nieuwenhuys. 'Neurofascination' is an apt label for his scholarly life in the sciences from the start in 1955 until his last days in 2024. In addition, he had a broad interest in Roman and Gothic architecture, the history and politics of the twentieth century, religion and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Extensive discussions on one or more of these topics often led to long-lasting friendships, some of which inform the following pages. Rudolf is remembered for his highly didactical and remarkably illustrated presentations and publications, including the three-volume The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates and the four editions of The Human Central Nervous System. His research interests addressed an impressively wide range of topics concerning development and evolutionary neurobiology and a systematic approach to comparative brain structures in vertebrates. His almost endless fascination for neuromorphology included the invertebrates as well. But unfortunately, even his long life was not enough to write the book on the comparative neuroanatomy of invertebrates which he long had in mind. The many years of his career spanned the remarkable histology of the gigantocerebellum of mormyrids to an exploratory synthesis of subdivisions of the human cortex, as originally mapped by the Vogt-Vogt school of cortical architectonics.
AB - This collective eulogy by colleagues, co-authors and friends is a tribute to the work and life of Rudolf Nieuwenhuys. 'Neurofascination' is an apt label for his scholarly life in the sciences from the start in 1955 until his last days in 2024. In addition, he had a broad interest in Roman and Gothic architecture, the history and politics of the twentieth century, religion and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Extensive discussions on one or more of these topics often led to long-lasting friendships, some of which inform the following pages. Rudolf is remembered for his highly didactical and remarkably illustrated presentations and publications, including the three-volume The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates and the four editions of The Human Central Nervous System. His research interests addressed an impressively wide range of topics concerning development and evolutionary neurobiology and a systematic approach to comparative brain structures in vertebrates. His almost endless fascination for neuromorphology included the invertebrates as well. But unfortunately, even his long life was not enough to write the book on the comparative neuroanatomy of invertebrates which he long had in mind. The many years of his career spanned the remarkable histology of the gigantocerebellum of mormyrids to an exploratory synthesis of subdivisions of the human cortex, as originally mapped by the Vogt-Vogt school of cortical architectonics.
KW - History, 20th Century
KW - History, 21st Century
KW - Humans
KW - Animals
KW - Neuroanatomy/history
KW - Brain/anatomy & histology
U2 - 10.1007/s00429-025-02953-1
DO - 10.1007/s00429-025-02953-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 40484890
SN - 1863-2653
VL - 230
SP - 90
JO - Brain Structure & Function
JF - Brain Structure & Function
IS - 6
ER -