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File:Otto Marburg.jpgOtto Marburg (1874-1948)
Dr. Otto Marburg (1874 – 1948) was a doctor who was born in Austria Hungary.
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Career
He was head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years. He later went to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938 and joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology.
Author
He was author of several standard texts about the nervous system, and a subtype of multiple sclerosis (Marburg multiple sclerosis) has been named after him.
Marburg died of cancer in the USA (in Manhattan) in 1948, at the age of 74.
This person is not related in any way to the discovery of the Marburg virus, which was discovered in the German town of Marburg.
Publications
- O. Marburg: Mikroskopisch-topographischer Atlas des menschlichen Zentralnervensystems mit begleitendem Texte. 3. Aufl. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig Wien 1927. (1. Auflage 1904, 2. Auflage 1927)
- O. Marburg: Die physikalischen Heilmethoden in Einzeldarstellungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig, Wien 1905.
- O. Marburg: Die Hemiatrophia facialis progressiva; der umschriebene Gesichtsschwund. Hölder, Wien 1912.
- J. A. Hirschl, O. Marburg: Syphilis des Nervensystems, einschliesslich Tabes und Paralyse. Hölder, Wien 1914.
- G. Alexander, O. Marburg, H. Brunner (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Neurologie des Ohres. 4 Bände, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1923–1929.
- O. Marburg: Der Kopfschmerz und seine Behandlung. Moritz Perles, Wien 1926.
- O. Marburg: Der Schlaf, seine Störungen und deren Behandlung. Springer, Berlin, Wien 1928.
- J. Meller, O. Marburg: Zur Kenntnis des Wesens der sogenannten Czermak-v. Hippelschen Netzhauterkran-kung. S. Karger, Berlin 1928.
- O. Marburg: Unfall und Hirngeschwulst: Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Hirngeschwülste. Springer, Berlin 1934.
- E. Grünthal, F. Hiller, O. Marburg: Traumatische präsenile und senile Erkrankungen, Zirkulationsstörun-gen. Springer, Berlin 1936.
- O. Marburg, M. Helfand: Injuries of the nervous system, including poisonings. Veritas Press, New York 1939.
- O. Marburg: Hydrocephalus: its symptomatology, pathology, pathogenesis and treatment. Oskar Piest, New York 1940.
References
- Based in a report of 1948 of the magazine Time [1]
- List of publications copied from equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
Categories:- Austrian physicians
- 1874 births
- 1948 deaths
- Austrian medical biography stubs
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