Biography:Max Landesberg

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

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 City 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. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101712621. 

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". in Singer, Isidore. The Jewish Encyclopedia. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610. https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9614-landesberg-max. 

  1. Pagel, J. L.; Sudhoff, Karl, eds (1915). Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin, in 25 akademischen Vorlesungen. 2nd. Berlin: S. Karger. p. 507. https://archive.org/details/einfhrungindie00page/page/506/mode/2up. 
  2.  Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". in Singer, Isidore. The Jewish Encyclopedia. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610. https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9614-landesberg-max. 
  3. Brinton, D. G.; Edwards, Joseph F., eds (October 17, 1885). "News and Misceilany". The Medical and Surgical Reporter (Philadelphia) 53: 455. https://archive.org/details/medicalsurgicalr53philuoft/page/454/mode/2up. 
  4. Eulenburg, A., ed (March 14, 1895). "Kleine Mittheilungen". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrif (Leipzig & Berlin: G. Thieme) 21 (11): 184. https://archive.org/details/DeutscheMedizinischeWochenschrift189521/page/n221/mode/2up.