Otto Marburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Marburg

austrian neurologist

Date of Birth: 25-May-1874

Place of Birth: Rýmařov, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1948

Profession: physician, neurologist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Otto Marburg (May 25, 1874 – June 13, 1948) was an Austrian neurologist known for his contributions to the understanding of multiple sclerosis and for advances in neurooncology. Marburg was born in Römerstadt in Moravia, Austria-Hungary (today Rýmarov, Czech Republic).
He was Jewish.
From 1919 to 1938 he was head of the Neurological Institute at the University of Vienna.
Following the 1938 Anschluss, Marburg was forced to emigrate to the United States as a refugee.
Arriving in New York City, he joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology. 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 New York in 1948, at the age of 74. Otto Marburg was not associated with the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967 in the German town of Marburg.



Alternative names	Johudo Epstein; j. epstein; jehudo eppstein; jehuda epstein
Description	Austrian painter
Date of birth/death	6 July 1870	16 November 1945
Location of birth/death	Slutsk	Johannesburg
Authority control	: Q1686588 VIAF: 219808632 ISNI: 0000 0003 9822 7176 ULAN: 500083369 GND: 126321515 RKD: 26447