Ludvig Puusepp—Founder of Estonian Neurosurgery and Harvey Cushingʼs Eastern Hemisphere Counterpart

Abstract

SummaryLudvig Puusepp (1875–1942) became the world's first professor in neurosurgery in 1910 in St. Petersburg, and was then active from 1920 until his death in 1942 at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He involved himself in all types of neurosurgical procedures, suggested many innovative surgica