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Otto Porges

Born: 04-01-1879
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Otto PORGES (born on April 1st, 1879 in Brandeis a. d. Elbe, died on November 19th, 1968 in USA) was lecturer ('Dozent') for Interne Medizin 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 Chicago/USA. Lit.: MERINSKY 1980, 200-201; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog
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