Josef Gerstmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Gerstmann

American neurologist

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1887

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1969

Profession: neurologist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Josef Gerstmann (July 17, 1887, Lemberg – March 23, 1969, New York City) was a Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist.Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna 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.

Max Schneider (1887–)
Description	Austrian photographer and painter
Date of birth/death	23 August 1887	20^th century date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Location of birth	Vienna
Work period	1919–1938
Work location	Vienna
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