Background
Spitzka, Edward Charles was born on November 10, 1852 in New York, United States. Son of Charles Anthony and Johanna (Tag) Spitzka.
Spitzka, Edward Charles was born on November 10, 1852 in New York, United States. Son of Charles Anthony and Johanna (Tag) Spitzka.
Educated College City of New York, 1870-1873. Doctor of Medicine University Medical College (New York University), 1873. Studied Leipzig and Vienna, 1873-1876.
Father of Edward Anthony South. In practice as specialist in internal diseases, particularly of nervous system. Medical expert in cases of insanity or injury to brain or spinal cord. Notably in the trial of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, where he testified to the prisoner’s insanity.
Professor of medical Jurisprudence and neurology, New York Post-Graduate Medical College, 1885-1887.
Consultant neurologist Sydenham Hospital Discoverer of the inter-optic lobes of the reptilian brain. Editor American Journal of Neurology, 1881-1884.
Vice president section neurology, 9th International Medical Congress, 1887, chairman Section of Somatology, Medical Congress, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Member American Neurological Association (president 1890), New York Neurological Society (president 1883-1884), Association American Anatomists.
Author: Treatise on Insanity, 1883.
Address: New York, New New York
Member American Neurological
Married Catherine Watzek, June 30, 1875.