History

The SNS was founded on 15 November 1908, when ten men met in the restaurant at Olten’s railway station to hold a preliminary consultative meeting. This initiating committee was made up of Robert Bing, Paul Dubois, Paul-Louis Ladame, Constantin von Monakow, Louis Schnyder, Robert Schumann, Alfred Ulrich, Otto Veraguth, Emil Villiger and Gustav Wolff.

The topics of discussion on that day in Olten included the name of the new society. One of the names put forward was the ‘Neuro-Psychological Society’, but the ‘Swiss Neurological Society’ was ultimately the preferred option. The SNS was constituted in Bern on 13 March 1909.

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