Robert Wartenberg

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Robert Wartenberg (born June 7 . Jul / 19th June  1886 greg. In the garden , Russian Empire ; † 16th November 1956 in San Francisco , United States ) was a German American neurologist .

Life

Wartenberg attended school in Stuttgart and then studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen , Kiel , Munich , Freiburg and Rostock . In 1919 he received his doctorate in Rostock.

He then worked with Max Nonne in Hamburg and Otfrid Foerster in Breslau . As a Rockefeller Foundation fellow , he stayed in Boston in 1926 with Harvey Williams Cushing . Wartenberg completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1928 , where he became senior physician in charge of the neurological clinic in 1933 .

In 1936 the neurologist emigrated to the USA and went to the University of California, San Francisco . In 1952 he became professor of neurology there. In 1954 he retired .

Robert Wartenberg was married to Baroness Isabelle von Sazenhofen from 1929 . The Wartenbergrad , the Wartenberg Syndrome and the Wartenberg Sign were named after him.

Publications (selection)

Wartenberg published around 160 scientific papers, including several monographs.

  • The examination of reflexes . The Year Book Publishers, Chicago 1945.
  • Diagnostic tests in Neurology . The Year Book Publishers, Chicago 1953.
  • Neuritis, sensory neuritis, neuralgia . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1958.

literature

  • Heinrich Pette : Robert Wartenberg (1887-1956). In: German journal for neurology. 176: 1-4 (1957).
  • Johannes Noth: Robert Wartenberg (1887-1956). In: The neurologist. Vol. 73, No. 6 (June 2002).
  • Georges Schaltbrand : Obituary for Professor Robert Wartenberg - San Francisco. In: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. Vol. 195, No. 4 (July 1957).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Robert Wartenberg's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Wartenberg, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Garden , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1956
Place of death San Francisco , United States