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KURT GOLDSTEIN DIED IN NEW YORK CITY on September 19, 1965, at the age of 86. He was born in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia (now in Poland, then an easternmost outpost of the old German empire) on November 6, 1878, into a well-to-do family of merchants. Among his cousins were the philosopher, Ernst Cassirer, and others who became publishers and representatives of the world of letters and art. Following his education at the gymnasium, he was uncertain whether to study philosophy or natural science. When deciding on the latter, he felt that he would use it only as a basis for becoming a physician.
In 1918 he was appointed full professor of neurology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and also director of the Neurological Institute. In 1917 he organized a hospital, later called the Institute for Research into the After-Effects of Brain Injuries. He later stated that this clinical and research undertaking was made possible by the close and eager cooperation of younger neurologists and psychiatrists, among them Walter Riese and Frieda Reichmann, and psychologists, especially Adhemar Gelb.
In the years 1917 to 1929 this work yielded entirely novel conceptual aspects of such conditions as aphasia, apraxia, agnosia,