Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies.
Clin Anat. 2014 Mar;27(2):147-9. doi: 10.1002/ca.22112. Epub 2012 Jun 18.
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795-1873) began his pursuit of neurology in 1820 by translating into German Andrew Marshall's The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain. In 1830, Romberg was hired as Privatdozent of special pathology and therapy in the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin. He quickly rose to director of the royal clinic in 1845, at which time he wrote Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen, a text generally regarded as the first formal treatise on nervous diseases. He identified the role of proprioception in tabes dorsalis, and became the first neurologist to describe the typical pupillary presentation found in patients with tertiary syphilis. Romberg is perhaps most famous for identifying "Romberg's sign," the distinctive sensory ataxia observed in neuropathies of the dorsal columns.
莫里茨·海因里希·罗姆伯格（Moritz Heinrich Romberg，1795-1873 年）于 1820 年开始从事神经病学研究，他将安德鲁·马歇尔（Andrew Marshall）的《脑的病态解剖》（The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain）译为德文。1830 年，罗姆伯格被聘为柏林夏洛蒂大学医院（Charité）的特殊病理学和治疗学的副教授。他很快于 1845 年升任皇家诊所主任，同年他撰写了《人类神经疾病学教程》（Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen），该书通常被认为是第一部关于神经疾病的正式论著。他发现了本体感觉在脊柱痨中的作用，并成为第一个描述三期梅毒患者典型瞳孔表现的神经病学家。罗姆伯格最著名的或许是发现了“罗姆伯格征”（Romberg's sign），这是一种在背柱神经病中观察到的明显感觉性共济失调。
