Education
Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna between 1906 and 1912 graduating in 1912.
neurologist university professor
Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna between 1906 and 1912 graduating in 1912.
During World War I he served with distinction as the sanitary officer Subsequently he worked at the Clinic for Psychiatry-Neurology in Vienna with Wagner-Jauregg, and, after becoming Professor, he became the chief of Neurological Institute Maria-Theresien-Schlössel, Vienna in 1930. Initially Gerstmann worked at the Springfield / Ohio State Hospital, and from to 1941 as a research assistant and as a consultant neurologist at Saint Elisabeth Hospital in Washington.
Gerstmann opened a private practise at 240 Central Park South.
Gerstmann died on March 23, 1969 in his New York apartment. Gerstmann syndrome and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome are named after him.
He was named an honorary member of the American Psychiatric Association and Academy of Neurology, a member of the American Psychopathological Association, Psychotherapeutic Society, Pirquet Society and the Rudolf Virchow Society.