Franz Gerstenbrand (1924-2017) The world ambassador of Neurosciences In Memoriam Aeternam

Abstract

Franz Gerstenbrand graduated from Vienna University, “Cum Laude”, in 1950, and immediately, he started postgraduate training in Neurology and Psychiatry at the same University, under the directorship of Prof. Hans Hoff. In 1976, he was elected Professor of Neurology and appointed head of the University Department of Neurology at Innsbruck University, where he stayed til his retirement in 1994. Under his directorship the department of Neurology became one of the best organized and functioned university departments in Europe.