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By Edwin Markham, 1852-1940 Folker Hanefeld, a founding member of child neurology in Germany, passed away peacefully on May 9, 2022 (Figure 1). Yet, he and his colleagues were the first to describe several unique disorders including succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency, guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency,[12] congenital disorder of glycosylation syndrome type III,[13] and the diffuse central nervous system myelin deficiency, later designated as vanishing white matter disease.[14] In addition, the development of child neurology training in Germany began in the 1970s, one of the first being that of Folker's program at Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria Haus. Bengt was particularly proud of these scientific meetings surrounding neuropediatrics, so much so that Folker received the Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causae from the University of Goteborg in 1985. [Extracted from the article]