Max Neuburger

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Max Neuburger (born December 8, 1868 in Vienna ; † March 15, 1955 there ) was an Austrian doctor and medical historian.

Max Neuburger, 1928
Max Neuburger in 1937

Life

Max Neuburger came from a Jewish merchant family. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1893. He then worked as a secondary doctor at the Rudolfsspital, then assistant to the neurological department at the Vienna General Polyclinic with Moriz Benedikt . As a student of Theodor Puschmann , he completed his habilitation in the history of medicine in 1898. After Puschmann's death, he and Robert Ritter von Töply took over the representation of the subject in Vienna, which at the time did not have its own institute. He became associate professor in 1904, associate professor in 1912 and full professor in 1917. In 1906 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1914 he suggested the creation of the Institute for the History of Medicine, was able to move into this (after various provisional accommodations in the Medical Deanery and the 1st Medical Clinic) in the summer of 1920 with the support of Clinic Director Karel Frederik Wenckebach in the Josephinum building and managed the institute up to his dismissal for racist reasons on April 22, 1938. Neuburger had been collecting medical objects, books and pictures since 1906. Until 1920, the collection items were stowed behind the lecture hall of the 1st Medical Clinic, then the Josephinum at Währinger Strasse 25 could be moved into, where they are housed to this day.

After his expulsion from the university, Neuburger had to emigrate to London in 1939 , where he worked at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. From 1948 he lived in the USA and taught at the University of Buffalo , in 1952 he returned to Vienna.

Awards and honors

Fonts

literature

  • Erwin H. Ackerknecht : On the 100th birthday of Max Neuburger. In: Gesnerus, Volume 25 (1968) Issue 3–4, pp. 221–222 (digitized version )
  • Emanuel Berghoff: Max Neuburger. Becoming and working of an Austrian scholar . Maudrich, Vienna 1948.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 (Volume 4) p. 371.
  • Michael Hubenstorf: A “Viennese School” in the history of medicine? - Max Neuburger and the forgotten German-speaking medical history. In: Medical history and social criticism. Festschrift for Gerhard Baader . Matthiesen, Husum 1997, pp. 246-289
  • Heinz Goerke :  Neuburger, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 105 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 971.
  • Karl Holubar : Neuburger, Max. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1031.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Holubar: Neuburger, Max. 2005, p. 1031.
  2. ↑ Karl Holubar: Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940) and the domicilization of the Institute for the History of Medicine in the historic building of the Joseph Academy in Vienna: 1990 as a double year of commemoration. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. Vol. 102, 1990, pp. 333-337.
  3. ^ Karl Holubar: Neuburger, Max. 2005, p. 1031.
personal data
SURNAME Neuburger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1955
Place of death Vienna