Max Neuburger (8 December 1868 in

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– 15 March 1955 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician and historian of medicine. Born in Vienna on 8 December 1868, he "descended from

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families which had long been resident in

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and

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", his father, a linguist, moving out of Munich and becoming an Austrian subject in 1859, while his mother, an invalid, prompted the young Max to become a doctor, the future historian of medicine, during his youth, being well-versed in

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and

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, and particularly fond of

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. In 1893 he received his medical doctorate at the

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, followed by clinical training at the Rudolfspital and work as an assistant to

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at the Allgemeinen Poliklinik. In 1898 he qualified as a lecturer at the university under the supervision of Theodor Puschmann, who was also an important influence to his career. In 1917 he became a full professor in the field of

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. Because of Nazi persecution, he emigrated to

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in 1939, where he worked at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. In 1948 he moved to

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, to live with his son, and several years later returned to Vienna, where he died in 1955.The History of Clinical Endocrinology: A Comprehensive Account of ...
by V.C. Medvei From 1901, in collaboration with

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, he produced a revision of Puschmann's textbook on the history of medicine. He also published his own "''Geschichte der Medizin''", an acclaimed two volume work on the history of medicine of

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times. In 1919, at the Josephinum in Vienna, he established a history of medicine institute (''Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin'') with an impressive library and museum that grew in importance during the ensuing years.

Selected works

* ''Historische Entwicklung der experimentellen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksphysiologie vor Flourens'', 1897; edited and translated into English by Edwin Clarke with the title "The historical development of experimental brain and spinal cord physiology before Flourens", 1981. * ''Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin'', (original author Theodor Puschmann, edited with Julius Leopold Pagel); 3 volumes, 1901–06 – Handbook of the history of medicine. * ''Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medicin'' (with

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, Hugo Magnus), 1902 – Essays on the history of medicine. * ''Schillers Beziehungen zur Medizin'', 1905 –

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's relationship with medicine. * ''Geschichte der Medizin'' (2 volumes, 1906–11); translated into English by Ernest Playfair and published as "History of medicine" 1910–15. * ''Die Medizin im Flavius Josephus'', 1919 – The medicine of

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. * ''Hermann Nothnagel, Leben und Wirken eines deutschen Klinikers'', 1922 –

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, life and work of a German clinician. * ''British Medicine and the Vienna School; Contacts and Parallels'', 1943. * "British and German Psychiatry in the Second Half of the Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Century", ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine''. 18 (2): 121–145.

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0007-5140. 1945.OCLC WorldCat
published works.

Bibliography

* Arturo Castiglioni, "Omaggio a Max Neuburger"(in Italian), ''Rivista di Storia delle Scienze Mediche e Naturali'', Anno XXXIX, n. 2 (Luglio-Dicembre 1948), pp. 121-127

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Neuburger, Max 1868 births 1955 deaths Austrian Jews Jewish scientists Scientists from Vienna University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna Austrian medical historians 20th-century Austrian physicians Scientists from Austria-Hungary