Bibliography: BIB29444

Key	BIB29444
Reference type	Book
Title	Postcards from the Brain Museum : The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds
Author	Burrell, Brian
Year	2004
Date	2004
Publisher	Broadway Books
Place published	New York
Issue	10.
ISBN	9780385501286
Abstract	Traces the near-obsessive nineteenth-century research of top scientific minds to locate possible anatomical signs of genius, criminal behavior, and insanity, discussing the posthumous brain examinations of such figures as Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, Vladimir Lenin. Includes a chapter about a researcher named Spitzka in which a synopsis is given for some data that appeared in Spitzka's A Study of the Brains of Six Scholars and Scientists. One of the brains belonged to Wilhelm Steinitz, the first world chess champion. The paragraph with appears on page 225 of Postcards from the Brain Museum includes the following: "In his profile of Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of the first world chess championship held in 1866, Spitzka recounts Steinitz's descent into melancholia and madness by quoting from L.C. Petit's The Pathology of Insanity "He spent much time gazing into space 'trying to hypnotize Bab the Persian God.' From a partially systematized insanity he soon became overwhelmed with delusions of persecutions and hallucinations."
Notes	The Báb: p. 225.
Language	English
Keywords	BRAIN; STEINITZ, WILHELM; BAB
Number of pages	356