Richard Cassirer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Cassirer

German neurologist

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1868

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1925

Profession: neurologist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Richard Cassirer

  • Richard Cassirer (23 April 1868 – 20 August 1925) was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Breslau. After receiving his medical doctorate in 1891, he became assistant at the psychiatric clinic in Breslau under Karl Wernicke (1848–1905).
  • In 1893 he relocated to Vienna, where he furthered his studies with Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and Heinrich Obersteiner (1847–1922).
  • Later, he became professor of neurology at the University of Berlin, where he worked closely with Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919). As a clinical neurologist, Cassirer specialized on the anatomy of the central nervous system, and made contributions in his research of multiple sclerosis, encephalitis and poliomyelitis.
  • Among his written works was a new edition (1923) of Oppenheim's Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten für Ärzte und Studierende.In 1912 he first described a circulatory disease marked by an association of ovarian insufficiency and acrocyanosis with vasomotor-trophic disturbance of the skin, and disturbances of sensitivity caused by dysregulation of the vegetative nervous system which has been given the eponymic name of "Cassirer's syndrome" or "Crocq-Cassirer syndrome".In 1921, Dr.
  • Cassirer was asked to give testimony in regards to the mental condition of Soghomon Tehlirian, a man accused of murdering Talaat Pasha.
  • Cassirer maintained that Tehlirian was not sane when he carried out the crime due to a psychotic state caused as a result of his family being victims of a war-time massacre. Cassirer's portrait was painted by renowned artist Max Liebermann in 1918, and later presented to the Tate Gallery in London.

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