Maurice Klippel

Maurice Klippel (30 May 1858 – 1942) was a French physician for whom the conditions Klippel-Feil syndrome and Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome are named.

He was born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin and studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1889. In 1902 he became director of a department of general medicine at the Hôpital Tenon, where he remained until his retirement in 1924. He published articles on a wide array of medical topics, his best known written works being in the fields of neurology and psychiatry.

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