Paul Ferdinand Schilder is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Paul Ferdinand Schilder as Austrian neurologist and pychiatrist (1886–1940).
Paul Ferdinand Schilder was born at Vienna in 1886. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Vienna.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at University of Vienna.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, psychiatry and neurology.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Paul Ferdinand Schilder died in 1940, aged 54. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
- Fields: medicine, psychiatry and neurology
