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01.12.2009 | Pioneers in Neurology
Pioneers in neurology: Johannes Sayk (1923–2005)
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Ekkehardt Kumbier, Uwe K. Zettl
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Journal of Neurology
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Ausgabe 12/2009
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Johannes Sayk was born on 28 September 1923 in Sgonn in East Prussia (today Zgon in Poland) [
8]. Upon completing his medical degree in Jena in 1952, he received his neurological-psychiatric training at the University Hospital for Neurology and Psychiatry, directed at the time by Rudolf Lemke (1906–1957), a pupil of Hans Berger (1873–1941). Following his habilitation (1956) and training at the Brain Research Institute of Oskar and Cécile Vogt in Neustadt (Black Forest), Sayk first became Director of the Neurological Department at the University of Jena, where he was charged with establishing a brain research laboratory. In 1961, at the age of 39, he was appointed to the first independent Chair for Neurology in the former GDR at the University of Rostock, which he would hold until his retirement in 1989. …