Hermann Zingerle

Auastrian neurologist

Hermann Zingerle (31 March 1870 – 25 April 1935) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist born in Trento.In 1894 he earned his medical degree from the University of Innsbruck, becoming an assistant at the University of Graz during the following year.

In 1899 he received his habilitation for psychiatry and neuropathology, and from 1909 to 1926 was an associate professor at Graz.His name is associated with Zingerle's automatosis, a condition in which an individual experiences visual hallucinations taking place during automatic movements and changes in posture.

The term "Zingerle syndrome" was named in his honor by Swiss neurologist Georges de Morsier (1894–1982).