Josef Gerstmann

Josef Gerstmann, circa 1930 (Bildersammlung/Sammlungen der Medizinischen Universität Wien)

Josef Gerstmann (July 17, 1887, in Lemberg – March 23, 1969, in New York City) was a Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist.

Gerstmann studied medicine at the Medical University in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, between 1906 and 1912 graduating in 1912. During World War I he served with distinction as the sanitary officer. Subsequently, he worked at the Clinic for Psychiatry-Neurology in Vienna with Wagner-Jauregg, and, after becoming professor, he became the chief of Neurological Institute Maria-Theresien-Schlössel, Vienna in 1930. Being Jewish, he emigrated with his wife Martha to the United States in 1938, escaping the Nazi Anschluss.

Initially Gerstmann worked at the Springfield / Ohio State Hospital, and from 1940 to 1941 as a research assistant and as a consultant neurologist at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Washington. 1941 he moved to New York and became a research associate at the New York Neurological Institute and an attending neuropsychiatrist at Goldwater Memorial Hospital. Gerstmann opened a private practise at 240 Central Park South. He was named an honorary member of the American Psychiatric Association and Academy of Neurology, a member of the American Psychopathological Association, Psychotherapeutic Society, Pirquet Society and the Rudolf Virchow Society. Gerstmann died on March 23, 1969, in his New York apartment.

Gerstmann syndrome and Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome are named after him.

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References

  1. ↑ "Gerstmann's+syndrome - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary". Retrieved 2008-06-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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  3. ↑ doctor/2020 at Whonamedit?

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