Gabriel Steiner

Gabriel Steiner (born May 26, 1883 in Ulm , † August 10, 1965 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American neurologist of German origin.

Life

Which the Jewish religion belonging Gabriel Steiner, son of Simon Steiner, devoted himself to the High School to the study of medicine at the universities of Munich , Würzburg , Freiburg and Strasbourg , there took place in 1910 his doctorate to Dr. med. In 1913 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in neurology and psychiatry in Strasbourg, in 1919 Steiner accepted the call to the extraordinary professorship for these subjects as well as the management of the pathological-anatomical laboratory at the University of Heidelberg , positions which he held until his dismissal by the NS- Regime in 1933.

In 1936 Gabriel Steiner emigrated to the USA, where he was appointed professor of neuropathology and neurology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, and in 1954 he retired . Most recently he served as director of the Michigan Multiple Sclerosis Center until 1958.

Gabriel Steiner, who was married to Greta, née Herford, died in Detroit in August 1965 at the age of 82.

Gabriel Steiner discovered the " Spirochaeta argentinensis" with Philaletes Kuhn . Gabriel Steiner's research concerned, among other things, the familial disposition to epilepsy and the relationship between epilepsy and left-handedness .

Publications

• Epilepsy and Glioma ..., Dissertation , Berlin, 1910
• The animal experiment in psychiatry and neurology; inaugural academic lecture, Wiesbaden, 1914
• Pathogens and tissue findings in multiple sclerosis: comparative-histological-parasitological examinations in multiple sclerosis and other spirochetoses, Berlin, Springer, 1931
• The Current State of Multiple Sclerosis Research; after a lecture given on July 4, 1958 by the Swiss MS League for Research and Combat of Multiple Sclerosis in Bern, Bern, 1958
• Multiple sclerosis, its etiology, pathology, pathogenesis and therapy, Berlin, Springer, 1962

literature

• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 489.
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R - Z. , Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 600.
• Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800 , LIT Verlag Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 . Page 787.
• Steiner, Gabriel , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 352

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriel Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gabriel Steiner (www.whonamedit.com)