Binswanger

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Binswanger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Harry Binswanger (born 1944), American philosopher
  • Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966), Swiss psychologist, nephew of Otto Binswanger, important in existential psychology
  • Otto Ludwig Binswanger (1852–1929), Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist, uncle of Ludwig Binswanger
  • Otto Saly Binswanger (1854–1917), German-American chemist and toxicologist, cousin of Otto Ludwig Binswanger

See also[edit]

  • Binswanger's disease (subcortical leukoencephalopathy), in neurology, a form of multi-infarct dementia first described in 1894 by Otto Binswanger