| Born: | 11-06-1876 |
| Faculty: | Medical School | Medical University Vienna |
| Category: | Expelled teacher |
Max SCHACHERL, born in Vienna on November 6th, 1876, the son of Moriz Hermann Schacherl and Caroline Schacherl, née Eisner, was a private lecturer in neurology at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1938 and lived in Vienna 1st dstrict, Johannesgasse 14.
He had studied biology and medicine at the University of Vienna and received his "Dr.med." (MD) degree on June 10th, 1902. From 1902 to 1905 he was a demonstrator at the Neurological University Clinic, and subsequently became a clinical physician, marrying Stefanie Friedland (1884-1959) in 1907.
He became an assistant at the Psychiatric University Clinic in 1913 (head: Prof. Wagner-Jauregg) and worked at the Neurological Institute (head: Prof. Obersteiner) and at the Psychiatric University Clinic until 1924, performing military service in a reserve hospital during World War I from 1914 to 1918. He habilitated in psychiatry at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1919 and became a private lecturer ("Privatdozent").
In 1924 he moved to the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital and was head of the neurolues ward and the outpatient clinic for nervous patients there until 1938.
Max Schacherl was persecuted under National Socialism for racist reasons and was removed from office on April 22nd, 1938, his venia legendi was revoked and he was expelled from the University of Vienna and from the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital.
He had to flee Austria and managed to emigrate in time to London, England, where he was soon able to work again as a neurologist.
He returned to Austria in 1946 and his venia was restored to him on April 25th, 1946. In June 1946 he gave a lecture on sociomedical problems in England at the Society of Physicians in Vienna, of which he had been appointed an honorary member. In 1946 he became head of the neurological outpatient clinic at the Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital and director of the Outpatient Clinic for Nervous Diseases at the Rudolfspital and in 1947 head of the neurological outpatient clinic of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund in Vienna's 3rd district, Strohgasse.
Of his scientific publications, Therapy of Organic Nervous Diseases (1927) is best known. Hist research and publications focused in the field of therapy of nervous diseases related to syphilis. He was a member of the Psychiatric Association, Vienna and the Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Dr. Max Schacherl died at the age of 88 on October 26th, 1964 in Vienna and was buried at the Central Cemetery Vienna in the arcade yard of the fire hall Simmering.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna, Personalblatt S 304.1091; Austrian State Archives OeStA/AdR/E-uReang/Hilfsfonds/Abgeltungsfonds 3551, OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ VVSt/ VA/ 27859 & OeStA/ AdR/ E-uReang/ FLD 25213; FISCHER 1932/1933, 1369; KOSIC 1935, 307; MERINSKY 1980, 232-233; ROEDER 1983, 1019; MUEHLBERGER 1993, 32; BLUMESBERGER 2002, 1182; Karl-Heinz TRAGL, Geschichte der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien seit 1838 als Geschichte der Medizin in Wien, Vienna, Graz, Cologne 2011, 166, 276, 408 ; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog
Herbert Posch
