Carl Friedrich Otto (Carl) Westphal (1833–90)

German psychiatrist and neurologist. Studied medicine at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Zurich; MD, Berlin, 1855. Worked at the Berlin Charité from 1858; assistant in the department for the mentally ill. Professor extraordinarius of psychiatry, 1869; professor, 1874. Published on diseases of the spinal cord and other neurological diseases.