Otto Marburg belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Otto Marburg as Austrian neurologist (1874-1948).
Otto Marburg was born at Rýmařov in 1874. His recorded nationality is Austria. 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.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Otto Marburg died in 1948, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
