Martin, Michael, Fangerau, Heiner and Karenberg, Axel (2022). Persecuted and forgotten? The neurologists Kurt Goldstein and Friedrich Heinrich Lewy. Nervenarzt, 93 (SUPPL 1). S. 32 - 42. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1433-0407

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Abstract

This paper commemorates the careers and the scientific influence of the clinical neurologists Kurt Goldstein and Friedrich Heinrich Lewy including their forced migration in the mid-1930s. Goldstein (1878-1965) set up independent neurological departments in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin, adopting a decidedly holistic approach in medical care, research and teaching. He is therefore considered a co-founder of modern neuropsychology and neurorehabilitation. Goldstein came into the focus of the National Socialists as a Jew, socialist and adherent of psychotherapeutic methods. After a short incarceration he fled via Switzerland and Holland to the USA. Lewy (1885-1970) for his part specialized in neuropathological examinations and in 1912 quickly discovered the inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of nerve cells named after him. As head of a neurological institute in Berlin with inpatient beds, he decided to leave Germany as early as 1933 and arrived after a stopover in England in the United States one year later. The biographies of the two highly innovative neurologists illustrate that career opportunities for doctors of Jewish descent were already clearly limited during the Weimar Republic and that they had to face anti-Semitic tendencies even after their arrival in the USA.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Martin, MichaelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Fangerau, HeinerUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Karenberg, AxelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-669994
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-022-01312-3
Journal or Publication Title: Nervenarzt
Volume: 93
Number: SUPPL 1
Page Range: S. 32 - 42
Date: 2022
Publisher: SPRINGER
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1433-0407
Language: German
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
Clinical Neurology; PsychiatryMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66999

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