Max Landesberg

Max Landesberg (1840 – 4 March 1895) was a Romanian physician and oculist.

For the American rabbi, see Max Landsberg.

He was born to a Jewish family in Iași in 1840.[1] He was educated at the gymnasium at Ratibor and at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1865). After a postgraduate course under Graefe, Landesberg went to the United States, where he practised in New York and Philadelphia.[2] He was the American editor of the Revue d'Ophthalmologie of Paris.[3]

In 1894, he moved to Florence, Italy, dying there the next year.[4]

Publications
  • De blennorrhoea neonatorum (Thesis). University of Berlin. 1865.
  • Beiträge zur variokösen Ophthalmie. Elberfeld: Bädeker. 1874.
  • Zur Statistik der Linsenkrankheiten. Cassel: T. Fischer. 1876.
  • On the Etiology and Prophylaxis of Blindness. New York: William Wood & Co. 1878.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610.

  1. Pagel, J. L.; Sudhoff, Karl, eds. (1915). Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin, in 25 akademischen Vorlesungen. Vol. 2nd. Berlin: S. Karger. p. 507.
  2.  Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610.
  3. Brinton, D. G.; Edwards, Joseph F., eds. (17 October 1885). "News and Misceilany". The Medical and Surgical Reporter. Philadelphia. 53: 455.
  4. Eulenburg, A., ed. (14 March 1895). "Kleine Mittheilungen". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrif. Leipzig & Berlin: G. Thieme. 21 (11): 184.
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