Ludvig Puusepp
Surgeons, Medical Scientists
A2 Healthcare Corporation
Japan
Biography
Estonian scientist Ludvig Puusepp is recognized as the world’s first professor of neurosurgery. He studied neurology in Russia under prominent neurologists, becoming a professor of neuropathology and a key innovator in surgeries of the brain and nervous system. He is remembered as a diligent visionary ahead of his time, a researcher who not only advanced his field but set the groundwork for generations of improvements in the treatment of diseases and injuries affecting the spine and brain.
Research Interest
He joined several eugenics and mental hygiene organizations in the 1920s and 1930s, advocating research into genetic causes of retardation and the founding of schools for mentally disabled youth.
