Dr. Otto Marburg was a doctor who was born in Austria Hungary.

Career

He was head of the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

's Neurological Institute for 19 years. He later went to the U.S. as a refugee

Refugee

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 in 1938 and joined Columbia University

Columbia University

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's College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

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 as clinical professor of neurology

Neurology

Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...

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Author

He was author of several standard texts about the nervous system, and a subtype of multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

 (Marburg multiple sclerosis

Marburg multiple sclerosis

Marburg multiple sclerosis, also known as fulminant multiple sclerosis, is considered one of the multiple sclerosis borderline diseases, which is a collection of diseases classified by some as MS variants and by others as different diseases. Other diseases in this group are Neuromyelitis optica ,...

) 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

Marburg virus

Marburg virus disease is the name for the human disease caused by any of the two marburgviruses Marburg virus and Ravn virus...

, which was discovered in the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 town of Marburg

Marburg

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population, as of March 2010, was 79,911.- Founding and early history :...

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Publications

• O. Marburg: Mikroskopisch-topographischer Atlas des menschlichen Zentralnervensystems mit begleitendem Texte. 3. Aufl. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig Wien 1927. (1. Auflage 1904, 2. Auflage 1927)
• O. Marburg: Die physikalischen Heilmethoden in Einzeldarstellungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig, Wien 1905.
• O. Marburg: Die Hemiatrophia facialis progressiva; der umschriebene Gesichtsschwund. Hölder, Wien 1912.
• J. A. Hirschl, O. Marburg: Syphilis des Nervensystems, einschliesslich Tabes und Paralyse. Hölder, Wien 1914.
• G. Alexander, O. Marburg, H. Brunner (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Neurologie des Ohres. 4 Bände, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1923–1929.
• O. Marburg: Der Kopfschmerz und seine Behandlung. Moritz Perles, Wien 1926.
• O. Marburg: Der Schlaf, seine Störungen und deren Behandlung. Springer, Berlin, Wien 1928.
• J. Meller, O. Marburg: Zur Kenntnis des Wesens der sogenannten Czermak-v. Hippelschen Netzhauterkran-kung. S. Karger, Berlin 1928.
• O. Marburg: Unfall und Hirngeschwulst: Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Hirngeschwülste. Springer, Berlin 1934.
• E. Grünthal, F. Hiller, O. Marburg: Traumatische präsenile und senile Erkrankungen, Zirkulationsstörun-gen. Springer, Berlin 1936.
• O. Marburg, M. Helfand: Injuries of the nervous system, including poisonings. Veritas Press, New York 1939.
• O. Marburg: Hydrocephalus: its symptomatology, pathology, pathogenesis and treatment. Oskar Piest, New York 1940.