Robert Wartenberg

Robert Wartenberg ( born June 19, 1886 in garden / Grodno, Russian Empire, † November 16, 1956 in San Francisco, United States ) was a German neurologist.

Life

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

He then worked with Max Nonne in Hamburg and Otfrid Foerster in Breslau. A fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, he spent 1926 on in Boston at Harvey Williams Cushing. Wartenberg, 1928 Habilitation in Freiburg, where in 1933 he was Senior Consultant at the neurological clinic.

1936 emigrated to the neurologist in the U.S. and went to the University of California, San Francisco. In 1952 he became a professor of neurology. In 1954 his retirement

Robert Wartenberg was married since 1929 with Baroness Isabelle von Sazenhofen.

According to him, the Wartenberg, the Wartenberg syndrome and Wartenberg characters were named.

Publications (selection)

Wartenberg published about 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.