Cassirer was asked to give testimony in regards to the mental condition of Soghomon Tehlirian, a man accused of murdering Talaat Pasha. In 1912 he first described a circulatory disease marked by an association of ovarian insufficiency and acrocyanosis with vasomotor-trophic disturbance of the skin, and disturbances of sensitivity caused by dysregulation of the vegetative nervous system which has been given the eponymic name of 'Cassirer's syndrome' or 'Crocq-Cassirer syndrome'. Among his written works was a new edition (1923) of Oppenheim's Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten für Ärzte und Studierende.
Later, he became professor of neurology at the University of Berlin, where he worked closely with Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919).Īs a clinical neurologist, Cassirer specialized on the anatomy of the central nervous system, and made contributions in his research of multiple sclerosis, encephalitis and poliomyelitis. In 1893 he relocated to Vienna, where he furthered his studies with Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and Heinrich Obersteiner (1847–1922).
Richard Cassirer (23 April 1868 – 20 August 1925) was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family in Breslau.Īfter receiving his medical doctorate in 1891, he became assistant at the psychiatric clinic in Breslau under Karl Wernicke (1848–1905). German neurologist (1868–1925) Portrait of Richard Cassirer by Max Liebermann, 1918.
