Oskar Vogt
Oskar Vogt ( born April 6, 1870 in Husum, † July 31, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German brain researcher.
Life
Oskar Vogt, son of the pastor of St. Mary's Church, graduated from the Husum Gelehrtenschule and studied from 1888 to 1894 psychology, zoology and medicine in Kiel and Jena. In 1894 he received his doctorate in Jena Over fiber systems in the middle and caudal bar sections. After he stayed with Auguste Forel in Zurich. When Forel Vogt learned the therapeutic use of hypnosis. Forel gave him the editorship of the journal Journal of Hypnotism ( 1902: Journal of Psychology and Neurology).
In October 1894, Vogt assistant at the Leipzig Psychiatric and Mental Hospital Paul Flechsig. Only half a year later governor of Flechsig was terminated, among other things his hypnotic therapy methods because. In a private letter to Forel Vogt Flechsig designated 1895 as "rag and Dégenerée " as well as detractors. Emil Kraepelin also had ten years earlier developed at Flechsig Institute with this unsolvable differences after a few months, had been given notice of this and felt the allegations as slander.
Vogt founded in 1902 on the " Neurobiological Laboratory" of the University of Berlin, which emerged from the former private " Neurological Central Station " at the 1901 Korbinian Brodmann also investigated. From the Neurobiology Laboratory was 1914, the " Kaiser- Wilhelm- Institute of Brain Research " out ( new 1931 in Berlin-Buch ). Oskar Vogt was from 1930 to 1937 director until he was dismissed by the Nazis as a socialist. He went with his wife, the French neuroscientist Cécile Vogt born Mugnier to Neustadt in the Black Forest, where he built the private Institute for Brain Research and general biology and led to his death.
After the couple Vogt Vogt -Vogt syndrome is named.
From mid- 1925 to mid- 1927 Vogt dissected into 30,000 slices the brain of Lenin. He noted that there is an extraordinary accumulation of pyramidal cells in the cerebral cortex of the third layer was Lenin. From this he concluded that Lenin had had a particularly strong association ability and described him as an " association athletes ". However, this finding was also highly controversial even at that time.