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Maximilian Leidesdorf

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Austrian psychiatrist

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According to Wikipedia, Maximilian Leidesdorf was an Austrian psychiatrist born in Vienna. He was the son of the composer Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf. In 1845 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, afterwards visiting asylums in Italy, Germany, England and France. In 1856 he received his habilitation in Vienna, where he practiced medicine for the remainder of his career. In 1872 he became head of the department of mental illness at Vienna General Hospital, followed by an appointment in 1875 as director of the Landesirrenanstalt . One of his famous assistants was Julius Wagner-Jauregg , winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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