Max Lewandowsky

Max Heinrich Lewandowsky ( born June 28, 1876 in Berlin, † April 4, 1918 ) was a German neurologist of Jewish descent.

Max Lewandowsky studied at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Halle medicine. In 1902 he qualified as a professor at the Berlin University as a lecturer in physiology. Here in Berlin, he maintained then, together with other health professionals such as Korbinian Brodmann and Oskar Vogt, a neurological laboratory. In 1904, Lewandowsky became an assistant to Karl Bonhoeffer and Franz Nissl at the University of Heidelberg. After he was appointed associate professor in 1908, he worked for many years at the City Hospital Friedrichshain. In 1910 he founded together with Alois Alzheimer, the magazine for the entire neurology and psychiatry.

His grave is located in the Jewish Cemetery Weissensee.

Publications

• About the Vagusstromes fluctuations in changes in volume of the lung, 1898
• Proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences; Edited Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1900
• The functions of the central nervous system: A Textbook by Max Heinrich Lewandowsky, 1907
• Handbook of Neurology in 5 volumes. Berlin, Springer, 1911-1914
• M. Lewandowsky 's practical neurology for physicians; by Max Lewandowsky and Robert Hirschfeld, 1923 ( first edition 1917)
• Monographs from the general areas of neurology and psychiatry by Max Lewandowsky and A. Alzheimer, new edition 1963