Book contents
- From Loss to Memory
- From Loss to Memory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Counting Synapses
- 2 Discovering Synaptic Pruning
- 3 Else, Peter’s Mother
- 4 Richard, Peter’s Father, and Peter’s Uncle Fritz
- 5 Greiz: Kriegskinder (Children of War)
- 6 In Braubach, after the War
- 7 Arrival in America
- 8 Harvard Medical School
- 9 Understanding Sleep and Consciousness: Research at the National Institutes of Health
- 10 Entering the Cognitive Revolution: Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
- 11 Physician First, Scientist Second?
- 12 Comparative Brain Regions and Synapse Formation
- 13 Stimulating Progress on Developmental Brain Disorders
- 14 Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Role for Synaptic Pruning?
- 15 Early Childhood Education
- 16 Peter and Janellen’s Collaboration
- 17 Microglial Cells and the Mechanisms of Synaptic Pruning
- 18 Looking Forward: Being a Physician and a Scientist
- 19 Parkinson’s Disease and Berlin
- 20 Auf Deutsch: Back to German
- 21 Memories and Reflections at the End: A Return Trip to Greiz
- Glossary
- Index
4 - Richard, Peter’s Father, and Peter’s Uncle Fritz
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2023
- From Loss to Memory
- From Loss to Memory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Counting Synapses
- 2 Discovering Synaptic Pruning
- 3 Else, Peter’s Mother
- 4 Richard, Peter’s Father, and Peter’s Uncle Fritz
- 5 Greiz: Kriegskinder (Children of War)
- 6 In Braubach, after the War
- 7 Arrival in America
- 8 Harvard Medical School
- 9 Understanding Sleep and Consciousness: Research at the National Institutes of Health
- 10 Entering the Cognitive Revolution: Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
- 11 Physician First, Scientist Second?
- 12 Comparative Brain Regions and Synapse Formation
- 13 Stimulating Progress on Developmental Brain Disorders
- 14 Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Role for Synaptic Pruning?
- 15 Early Childhood Education
- 16 Peter and Janellen’s Collaboration
- 17 Microglial Cells and the Mechanisms of Synaptic Pruning
- 18 Looking Forward: Being a Physician and a Scientist
- 19 Parkinson’s Disease and Berlin
- 20 Auf Deutsch: Back to German
- 21 Memories and Reflections at the End: A Return Trip to Greiz
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Peter’s father, Richard Huttenlocher, was born in 1900 in Alte Weinsteige, in the hilly vineyards near Stuttgart. Richard’s father, Johann Huttenlocher, was a policeman in Stuttgart. Richard’s mother, Elisabethe, “Oma” Huttenlocher (family name Gaupp), was a doting mother and ran a traditional home, with a knack for German baking that she shared with her grandson Peter. Both Richard and his older brother Friedrich (Uncle Fritz) studied the sciences in the Gymnasium (high school), but their studies were interrupted by the First World War. Fritz was stationed at the western front from 1914 to 1918, where he was wounded and was recognized with an Iron Cross from the Prussian government. Richard had only a brief stint as a young soldier, toward the end of the war. After the war, they both returned to live at the family home. Richard studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and Fritz studied geography/geology at the University of Tübingen. They both married young. Fritz married his wife Hannah, a traditional woman, in 1920, and continued to work at the University of Tübingen as a lecturer and then professor.
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- From Loss to MemoryBehind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning, pp. 24 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023