Background
Stengel, Erwin was born on February 25, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Marcus and Franziska (Popper) Stengel.
Stengel, Erwin was born on February 25, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Marcus and Franziska (Popper) Stengel.
Born in Vienna, he studied medicine under Paul Schilder and Julius Wagner-Jauregg.
With the Anschluss of 1938, he emigrated to England with Ernest Jones"s assistance. He took up successive positions in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford, intermitting with internment on the Isle of Manitoba as an enemy alien, before becoming Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, in 1943, where he conducted pioneering work on attempted suicide. He moved to be Professor of Psychiatry at Sheffield University in 1957.
Concurrent with his work on suicide, he had a sustained interest in the dementias, pioneering advances in understanding of Alzheimer"s Disease.
He translated Sigmund Freud"s Zur Auffassung der Aphasien (1891) into English as On Aphasia. A Critical Study (1953).
Trained as a psychoanalyst, he became an Associate Member of the Vienna Psycho-Analytic Society in 1931 and a Member of the British Psycho-Analytic Society in 1938.
Married Anna Kohl, December 22, 1935.