Otto Marburg

Dr. Otto Marburg (1874-1948) was a doctor who was born in Vienna, Austria.

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. He was a personal friend of Sigmund Freud. In June 1938 after the occupation of Austria they left Vienna on the same train.

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.

References

• Based in a report of 1948 of the magazine Time [1]