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Moritz Oppenheim

Born: 01-01-1876
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Moritz OPPENHEIM (born on January 1st, 1876 in Vienna, died on October 27th, 1949 in Chicago, USA) was an extraordinary professor for Dermatologie und Syphilidologie at the Medical School of the University of Vienna.
He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university on April 22nd, 1938. He was able to emigrate to the USA. Lit.: MERINSKY 1980, 178-179; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog
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