Erwin Stengel (25 March 1902 – 2 June 1973)[1] was an Austrian-British neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.
Born in Vienna, he studied medicine under Paul Schilder and Julius Wagner-Jauregg there.
He took up successive positions in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford, intermitting with internment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien, before becoming Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, in 1943, where he conducted pioneering work on attempted suicide.
Concurrent with his work on suicide,[2][3] 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.