Alfred Goldscheider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Goldscheider

German neurologist

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1858

Place of Birth: Lubsko, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1935

Profession: neurologist, university teacher, military physician, internist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Johannes Karl Eugen Alfred Goldscheider (4 August 1858 – 10 April 1935) was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Sommerfeld (today Lubsko, Poland). He studied medicine at Friedrich-Wilhelm Medical-Surgical Institute in Berlin (promotion 1881), and subsequently spent the next seven years as a military physician.
During this period of time, he also served as an assistant to physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896).
He later became a professor at the University of Berlin. In Berlin, he served as directing physician at the Krankenhaus Moabit (from 1894) and at the Virchow-Krankenhaus (from 1906).
In 1910 he succeeded Hermann Senator at the polyclinic.