[Pioneers of neurosurgery: Emil Heymann (4/15/1878-1/11/1936)]

Following Fedor Krause and Otfrid Foerster, pioneers of neurosurgery in Germany, Emil Heymann was one of the outstanding promoters of the young surgical section, before it emerged as an independent specialty. As successor to Fedor Krause at the Augusta-Hospital, Berlin, he consistently improved techniques of investigation and operative treatment of intracranial and spinal tumors. Because of his Jewish parents he was persecuted by the Nazi regime, who nearly succeeded that his name fall into oblivion.