Wilhelm Neumann (physician)

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Wilhelm Neumann (born June 19, 1877 in Ullrichsthal , Northern Bohemia , † December 25, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist. He headed the tuberculosis department at the Vienna Wilhelminenspital .

Life

Wilhelm Neumann studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in 1903. He then worked at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna with Anton von Weichselbaum . He received his specialist training in internal medicine from Edmund von Neusser and Norbert Ortner at the Second Medical University Clinic in Vienna, where he completed his habilitation in 1912. From the beginning of the First World War until 1917 Neumann was regimental doctor on the Eastern Front. In 1917 he became the provisional head of the kuk reserve hospital for tuberculosis and in 1920 he became chief of the "barracks - tuberculosis hospital" in the Vienna Wilhelminenspital. In 1924 he became the Vienna State Medical Councilor and finally in 1927 the Supreme Medical Councilor . From 1928 to 1944 he was chief physician of the newly established third medical department at this hospital. Neumann was married to Pauline Braun. In 1930 he was appointed councilor. His life's work was fighting and researching clinical tuberculosis.

One of Neumann's students was the Austrian-South Tyrolean doctor and homeopath Christoph Hartung von Hartungen .

Works

  • Application of immunity research to the clinic of tuberculosis, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, vol. 62, 1912.
  • The clinic for the incipient adult tuberculosis , Julius Springer Vienna 1925.

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SURNAME Neumann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and tuberculosis researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Ullrichsthal , Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1944
Place of death Vienna