Background
Kreutzberg, Georg W. was born on September 2, 1932 in Ahrweiler, Germany. Son of Josef H.A. and Hanni (Niessen) Kreutzberg.
Kreutzberg, Georg W. was born on September 2, 1932 in Ahrweiler, Germany. Son of Josef H.A. and Hanni (Niessen) Kreutzberg.
Doctor of Medicine, University Freiburg, Germany, 1961. Docent in Neuropathology, University of Technology, Munich, 1971. Doctor (honorary), Medical University Szeged, Hungary, 1991.
Intern University Hospital, Freiburg, 1957-1958, Bonn, Germany, 1959. Postdoctoral fellow Neuropathology Institute, 1960. Research associate Max Planck Institute, Munich, 1961-1964, section chief, 1968-1977, member, head department neuromorphology, 1977-2000, chairman board directors for psychiatry, 1985-1995.
Professor emeritus, retired director Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, since 1995. Research fellow department psychology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1964—1965. Guest scientist Rockefeller University, New York City, 1967.
Professor Medical School University of Technology, Munich, since 1977. Member Otto Loewi Center Hebrew University, Jerusalem, since 1986. Chairman ad-hoc committee on history of neuroscience International Brain Research Organization, since 2001.
Visiting professor & Peter Lampert Memorial lecturer University California, San Diego, 2006.
Member International Society Neuropathology (honorary. Vice president 1986-1990, president 94-97), German Cell Biology Society (president 1981-1985), International Brain Research Organization (councillor 1976-1984), German Neurosci. Society (president 1999-2000), Science in Dialogue (People United to Save Humanity prize with Helmut Kettenmann 1999), International Society for History of the Neuroscis.
(president 2006-2008).
Married Karin Franken. Children: Achim, January.