In the history of medicine, Maximilian Leidesdorf is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Maximilian Leidesdorf as Austrian psychiatrist (1818–1889).
Maximilian Leidesdorf was born at Vienna in 1816. He trained at University of Vienna.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Vienna.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Maximilian Leidesdorf died in 1889, aged 73. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
- Fields: psychiatry
