Friedrich Jolly (24 November 1844 – 4 January 1904) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a native of Heidelberg , and the son of physicist Philipp von Jolly (1809?1884).

He studied medicine at Gottingen under Georg Meissner (1829?1905), and in 1867 received his doctorate at Munich . In 1868 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Gudden (1824?1886) and Hubert von Grashey (1839?1914) at the mental institution in Werneck , and in 1870 was an assistant to Franz von Rinecker (1811?1883) at the Juliusspital in Wurzburg .

In 1873 Jolly became director of the psychiatric clinic in Strassburg , where he was named as successor to Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840?1902). In 1890 he succeeded Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833?1890) as director of the neuropsychiatric clinic at the Berlin Charite .

Jolly is remembered for his pioneer research of myasthenia gravis , including the electrophysiological aspects involving abnormal fatigue associated with the disease which forms the basis of Jolly's test . He is credited with coining the term myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica for the disorder.

He was the author of an influential treatise on hypochondria that was published in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen 's " Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie ". ^[1] His " Untersuchungen uber den elektrischen Leitungswiderstand des menschlichen Korpers " (1884) was fundamental to the study of electrical diagnostics. ^[2]

His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. III of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church ) in Berlin-Kreuzberg , south of Hallesches Tor .

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• Friedrich Jolly @ Who Named It