Oskar Vogt

Oskar Vogt was a German physician and neurologist, born in Husum in 1870 and dying in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1959. With his wife, the French neurologist Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, he carried out extensive cytoarchitectonic studies of the brain, including work on the cortex and the thalamus. In 1898 the couple founded a private research institute in Berlin that grew into the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, of which he was a director. He edited the Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, was asked in 1924 to consult on Lenin's illness and studied Lenin's brain afterward, and helped establish a brain institute in Moscow. He was dismissed from the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in 1936 for opposing the Nazi Party.