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Eduard Müller

Born  1876
Died  1928

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German physician, born January 4, 1876, Anweiler, bayrische Rheinpfalz; died December 20, 1928, Marburg.

Biography of Eduard Müller

Eduard Müller studied medicine in Marburg, Heidelberg, Kiel, Strassburg, and Erlangen, receiving his doctorate at Erlangen in 1898. He worked as an assistant in the psychiatric clinic in Freiburg under Hermann Emminghaus (1845-1904), then in Carl Weigert's (1845-1904) pathological institute in Frankfurt am Main. In 1903 he became an assistant in Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell's (1853-1925) clinic, first in Erlangen, then in Breslau. He was habilitated in 1904 and in 1909 came to Marburg as professor extraordinary and director of the medical polyclinic. He was promoted to full professor in 1921.

His work concerns internal medicine and neurology, in particular epidemic infant paralysis and encephalitis epidemica.

We thank Andre Trombeta for information submitted.

Bibliography

  • Die spinale Kinderlähmung. Berlin, 1910.
  • Therapie des praktischen Arztes. 2 volumes, Berlin 1914.
    2nd edition of volume 3 with A. Bittorf as: Grundriss der gesamten praktischen Medizin. 2 volumes, 1931.
  • Die epidemische Kinderlähmung.
    In: Handbuch der inneren Medizin, volume 1, 1, Berlin, 1925.
  • Die Erkrankungen des Rückenmarks.
    In: Handbuch der inneren Medizin, volume 5, 1, Berlin, 1925.

  • Isidor Fischer, publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
    Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932. Pp. 1081-1082.

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