The year 2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Cécile Vogt's birth and the 155th anniversary of Oskar Vogt's birth. To mark this occasion, our institute’s director Katrin Amunts highlights the Vogts' scientific collection and their estate in the Vogt Archive for the renowned journal Brain. The conclusion: both represent a valuable resource for research in a broad spectrum ranging from the basic sciences and medicine to historical and ethical issues. The unique collection is now being fully cataloged and made available to the scientific community—as a source and source of inspiration for future research projects.
Katrin Amunts, The Vogt Collection: reactivating a treasure facilitating brain research, neurology and psychiatry, Brain, 2025; awaf365, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf365
Image: Cécile and Oskar Vogt with their Pantomikrotom, a microtome for large sections, in the institute (around 1905). Courtesy Vogt Archive, Düsseldorf.