Josef Gerstmann

Josef Gerstmann (July 17, 1887, in Lemberg – March 23, 1969, in New York City) was a Jewish Austrian-born American neurologist.

[1][2] Gerstmann studied Medicine at the Medical University in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, between 1906 and 1912 graduating in 1912.

During World War I he served with distinction as the sanitary officer.

Being Jewish, he emigrated with his wife Martha to the United States in 1938, escaping the Nazi Anschluss.

Gerstmann opened a private practise at 240 Central Park South.