[Hermann Oppenheim. Comments on his life and works].

The outstanding neurologist Hermann Oppenheim was renowned worldwide during his lifetime and was highly esteemed; however, he was also a contradictory, complex personality and his life was marked by several tragic events. Even for his contemporaries, his life and work was the subject of lively discussions and debates and also some 100 years later, it is an interesting challenge to obtain an insight into the extensive work of this famous man and to understand the reasons for his great successes and failures.