See also: Vogt

Oskar Vogt (1870-1959) was a neurologist and enquiring German.

Born the April 6th with Husum, in the the Schleswig-Holstein, Danish half, half German, he studies the histology with Kiel, then to Iéna and devotes his thesis to the callous Corps. He works with the neuro-anatomy and the psychiatric private clinic. He collaborates then in Zurich with Auguste Forel and is interested in the Hypnose: he founds with Sigmund Freud the review: Zeitschrift für Hypnotismus . He scrambles himself with Leipzig with Flechsig and will finish his formation in 1897-1898 near the Dejerine with Paris. It is there that it meets Cécile Mugnier, that it marries in 1899. Thanks to the bread-winner of industrialists Krupp (" merchants of canons"), it had looked after a member, it founds with Berlin in 1900 a neurological research center, the “ Neurologische Zentralstation ” which becomes in 1902 the “ Neurologisches Laboratorium ”, attached with the Université of Berlin. This center will shelter in particular work of Cytoarchitectonie of the cortex of (whereas the Vogt couple is devoted to the myéloarchitectonie), as well as the searchs for Bielschowsky recruited in 1904. Vogt becomes in 1911 professor and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Hirnforschung .

Vogt also remained famous to have dissected the Cerveau of Lénine. It is told that it had found in this brain a seventh cortical layer explaining the genius of Lénine.

Oskar Vogt, as Forel was interested in the Entomologie: he was a specialist in the bumblebee S.

Oskar Vogt is deceased the July 31st 1959 with Freiburg-in-Brisgau.

References

• Klatzo I. Cecile and Oskar Vogt. The visionaries off modern neuroscience , Springer, New York, 2002
• Foncin JF. Rev Neurol , 2000; 156: 1032-1035