Frederic Lewy

{{Short description|American neurologist}}

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|name = Frederic Lewy

|image = Friedrich_Heinrich_Lewy.JPG

|caption = Lewy {{circa|1920}}

|birth_name = Friedrich Heinrich Lewy

|birth_date = January 28, 1885

|birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

|death_date = October 5, 1950 (aged 65)

|death_place = Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States

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|resting_place = Haverford Friends, Haverford, Pennsylvania

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|known_for = Lewy bodies

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|occupation = Neurologist

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Fritz Heinrich Lewy ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɛ|v|i}}; January 28, 1885 – October 5, 1950),{{WhoNamedIt|doctor|2182|Friedrich H. Lewy}} known in his later years as Frederic Henry Lewey, was a German-born American neurologist. He is best known for the discovery of Lewy bodies, which are a characteristic indicator of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.{{cite journal |vauthors=Rodrigues e Silva AM, Geldsetzer F, Holdorff B, et al|title=Who was the man who discovered the "Lewy bodies"? |journal=Movement Disorders |volume=25 |issue=12 |pages=1765–73 |date=September 2010 |pmid=20669275 |doi=10.1002/mds.22956 |s2cid=35005314 }}

Lewy was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, on January 28, 1885. He trained in Berlin and Zürich and graduated from Berlin{{clarify|date=May 2021}} in 1910. He worked in Alois Alzheimer's Munich laboratory and was contemporary with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964), Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931) and Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963). In 1933, he fled Nazi Germany and moved to the United States.{{cite journal |vauthors=Holdorff B |title=Friedrich Heinrich Lewy (1885–1950) and his work |journal=Journal of the History of the Neurosciences |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=19–28 |date=March 2002 |pmid=12012571 |doi=10.1076/jhin.11.1.19.9106 |s2cid=24908805 }} Lewy died in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 1950, aged 65.