Max Landau
Max Landau (born October 19, 1886 in Brody in Galicia, † April 30, 1915 in Vienna ) was an Austrian anatomist.
Life
Landau, who came from an old rabbi family, studied medicine at the universities of Vienna , Strasbourg and Munich and received his doctorate in 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was a prosector at the Anatomical Institute in Frankfurt and then assistant at the Institute for Anatomical Pathology at the University of Freiburg .
After the outbreak of World War I , he returned to Vienna and became a prosector in a garrison hospital.
Landau he devoted himself above all to diseases of the adrenal glands .
Works
- Adrenal cortex and metabolism ,
- Physiology of cholesterol metabolism ,
- Relationship of the adrenal gland to cholesterol metabolism
literature
- Chiari: Landau, Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 427.
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| SURNAME | Landau, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brody , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1915 |
| Place of death | Vienna |