Cecile Vogt-Mugnier

Cecile Vogt-Mugnier (March 27th 1875 with Annecy - May 4th 1962 with Cambridge, England), was a Neurologue and Franco-German neuropathologist, wife of Oskar Vogt.

Its family was originating in Haute-Savoie. It lost its father with age of two years and as of its young age, it made proof of character independent and nonconventional, which had been already seen in its family since her mother who had broken with the church, had refused to be pilot confirmation of his/her daughter, being satisfied to escort it to the door of the cathedral.

Cécile Mugnier was to belong to the restricted group of the first coeds to being allowed in medical college. She was the pupil of Pierre Marie with Bicêtre where she became acquainted with her husband-to-be, Oskar Vogt. This last had come to work with Paris with Jules and Augusta Dejerine. In 1899 it married Oskar Vogt and the couple moved with neurological Berlin to found an research institute there, the Neurologische Zentralstation which they financed thanks to their private practice. Very quickly, Cécile Vogt-Mugnier asserted itself like a scientist of foreground, as well as her contemporary Marie Curie (1867-1934), Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke (1859-1927), and Marie Nageotte-Wilbouchewitch (the wife of the anatomist Jean Nageotte).

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Biographical note in English on the site “Who named it”

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