Prof. Dr. Kurt Jellinger

Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger studied medicine at the Medical Faculty at the University of Vienna, Austria. He finished his studies with a Dr. med. univ. “sub auspiciis praesidentis” in 1956 and soon specialized in clinical neurology and neuropathology, becoming a private lecturer (“Privat-Dozent”) in 1967. He became the Head of the Department of Neuropathology and a University Professor in 1973. Dr. Jellinger is an expert neuropathologist; worldwide, he is known for translating the most recent literature and conference knowledge into neuropathological analyses. He is an honorary member of several national and international societies, including the American, British, German, Hungarian and Austrian Societies of Neuropathology, the German Societies of Neurology and Pathology, the Austrian Neuroscience Association, and the Austrian and German Parkinson Societies. He has received many honors and awards, like the Alzheimer Obelisk in 1998, the Lundbeck Award for Parkinson Research, 2003 and the Senator-Doctor Franz Burda Award, 2000, the Karl Maria Jakob Medal of the German Association of Neuropathology, 2003, the Istvan Környey Tarscosag award, 2005, the Cotzias Award of the Movement study group of the Spanish Society of Neuropathology, 2011. After retiring as Head of the Department of Neurology, Lainz-Hospital in 1997 and of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna, in 2002, he continued in his scientific endeavors.