Max Lewandowsky was a German neurologist, who was a native of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. He studied medicine at the University of Marburg, Berlin and Halle, and earned his doctorate in 1904. Since 1905 he worked in Berlin-Friedrichshain hospital. His co-workers were Korbinian Brodmann

Korbinian Brodmann

Korbinian Brodmann was a German neurologist who became famous for his definition of the cerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic characteristics.-Life:...

, Cecile Vogt, Oskar Vogt

Oskar Vogt

Oskar Vogt was a German physician and neurologist. He was born in Husum - Schleswig-Holstein...

, Max Bielschowsky

Max Bielschowsky

Max Bielschowsky was a German neuropathologist born in Breslau.After receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1893, he worked with Ludwig Edinger at the Senckenberg Pathology Institute in Frankfurt-am-Main. At Senckenberg he learned histological staining techniques from...

. Since 1910 he edited, together with Alois Alzheimer

Alois Alzheimer

Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer, was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease....

, Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie. He wrote also handbook of neurology, "Handbuch der Neurologie". During the I World War he became infected with typhus

Typhus

Epidemic typhus is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters...

and died.