Abstract
The highest number of German scholars and physicians, forced by the National Socialist regime to emigrate for "race" or political reasons, were from Berlin. Language and medical exams were requested differently in their new host country-the United States-leading to a concentration of immigrants in the New York and Boston areas. Very early Emergency Committees in Aid of German Scholars and Physicians were established. Undergraduate students (like F. A. Freyhan, H. Lehmann, and H.-L. Teuber) from Berlin seemed to integrate easily, in contrast to colleagues of more advanced age. Some of the former chiefs and senior assistants of Berlin's neurological departments could achieve a successful resettlement (C. E. Benda, E. Haase, C. F. List, and F. Quadfasel) and some a minor degree of success (F. H. Lewy and K. Goldstein). A group of neuropsychiatrists from Bonhoeffer's staff at the Berlin Charité Hospital could rely on the forceful intercession of their former chief. The impact of the émigré colleagues on North American neuroscience is traced in some cases. Apart from the influential field of psychoanalysis, a more diffuse infiltration of German and European neuropsychiatry may be assumed. The contribution to the postwar blossoming of neuropsychology by the émigré neuroscientists K. Goldstein, F. Quadfasel, and H.-L. Teuber is demonstrated in this article.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Emigrated neuroscientists from Berlin to North America.
A1 - Holdorff,Bernd,
Y1 - 2016/02/06/
PY - 2016/2/9/entrez
PY - 2016/2/9/pubmed
PY - 2017/3/10/medline
KW - American brain gain
KW - Berlin context
KW - Clemens Ernst Benda
KW - Fred Quadfasel
KW - Fritz A. Freyhan
KW - Fritz Heinrich Lewy
KW - Hans-Lukas Teuber
KW - Heinz Lehmann
KW - Hertha Seidemann
KW - Jewish neuroscientists
KW - Karl Bonhoeffer
KW - Kurt Goldstein
KW - clinical neurology and neuropsychology
KW - forced migration
SP - 227
EP - 52
JF - Journal of the history of the neurosciences
JO - J Hist Neurosci
VL - 25
IS - 3
N2 - The highest number of German scholars and physicians, forced by the National Socialist regime to emigrate for "race" or political reasons, were from Berlin. Language and medical exams were requested differently in their new host country-the United States-leading to a concentration of immigrants in the New York and Boston areas. Very early Emergency Committees in Aid of German Scholars and Physicians were established. Undergraduate students (like F. A. Freyhan, H. Lehmann, and H.-L. Teuber) from Berlin seemed to integrate easily, in contrast to colleagues of more advanced age. Some of the former chiefs and senior assistants of Berlin's neurological departments could achieve a successful resettlement (C. E. Benda, E. Haase, C. F. List, and F. Quadfasel) and some a minor degree of success (F. H. Lewy and K. Goldstein). A group of neuropsychiatrists from Bonhoeffer's staff at the Berlin Charité Hospital could rely on the forceful intercession of their former chief. The impact of the émigré colleagues on North American neuroscience is traced in some cases. Apart from the influential field of psychoanalysis, a more diffuse infiltration of German and European neuropsychiatry may be assumed. The contribution to the postwar blossoming of neuropsychology by the émigré neuroscientists K. Goldstein, F. Quadfasel, and H.-L. Teuber is demonstrated in this article.
SN - 1744-5213
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/26853762/Emigrated_neuroscientists_from_Berlin_to_North_America_
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -
