Institute for Brain Research and General Biology

The Institute for Brain Research and General Biology , sometimes referred to as the Neustadt Brain Research Institute , was a private research institute that existed in Neustadt in the Black Forest from 1937 to 1964 .

It was designed by German neurologist Vogt Oskar and his wife Cécile Vogt established after Oskar Vogt during the Nazi era because of its political stance in 1937 from his position as director of the in Berlin-Buch existing for Brain Research Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was retired was. The institute was financed from the Vogt's own private fortune and, in particular, from a newly founded German Brain Research Society with the support of the Krupp family , whose doctor Oskar Vogt was. The research focused on morphological studies on neurobiology .

After the death of Oskar and Cécile Vogt, the institute's collections and documents were transferred to the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf, which became the University of Düsseldorf in 1965 . The Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research GmbH has existed at the Düsseldorf University Hospital to this day . The Haus Vogt Clinic was established in 1975 in the former institute building in Neustadt in the Black Forest as a specialist clinic for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics . Its sponsor is the Heidehof Foundation .

literature

• The Institute for Brain Research and General Biology, Neustadt 1937–1964. In: Helga Satzinger: The history of genetically oriented brain research by Cécile and Oskar Vogt (1875–1962, 1870–1959) in the period from 1895 to approx. 1927. Series: Braunschweig publications on the history of pharmacy and natural sciences. Volume 41. Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7692-2371-3 , pp. 96-99
• Transfer to a Small Arena. In: Igor Klatzo, Gabriele Zu Rhein: Cécile and Oskar Vogt: The Visionaries of Modern Neuroscience. Springer, Vienna and New York 2002, ISBN 3-211-83798-1 , pp. 59-108

Web links

• University Hospital Düsseldorf - Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research
• Vogt House Clinic

Footnotes

1. ↑ A rather critical review of Satzinger's book can be found in: ISIS 90: 2 (1999), pp. 394–395, a review by Manfred D. Laubichler

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '4.3 "  N , 8 ° 13' 3.9"  E