An addendum to the discussion of the reason for Freud's leaving his post as a Demonstrator in the Institute of Physiology, University of Vienna, at the age of 26:
Chris wrote: >The question is somewhat narrower than you make it >out to be. It is not whether "anti-semitism," broadly >construed, prevented Freud from becoming a neurologist. > It is the degree to which Jews were able to obtain >professorships in neurology in the (state-run) German >and Austrian universities of the 1880s… I do not know >prescisely which German and Austrian universities were >likely to have open professorships or assistantships in >neurology in the next few years after 1881, or which of >those would have been open to the prospect of hiring >a Jew (though I bet Freud knew both). The specific situation in Brücke's physiological Institute in relation to Freud was that, of the two Assistants in positions above him, Fleischl-Marxow was Jewish and Exner was half-Jewish (his mother was a Jew). Both became professors of physiology in the University of Vienna, the latter succeeding Brücke as Chair at the Institute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Exner http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=210&letter=F The School of Medicine at the University of Vienna seems to have been largely free of the anti-Semitism that pervaded other areas of life in Vienna: "I will name but a few of the early Jewish professors of the First Vienna School of Medicine: the dermatologists Isidor Neumann (1832-1906) and Moritz Kaposi (1837-1902), the pathologist Salomon Stricker (1834-1898), the ear specialist Adam Politzer (1835 -1920), the anatomist Emil Zuckerkandl (1849 -1910), the physiologist Ernst Fleischl v. Marxow (1846-1891), and the ophthalmologist Ludwig Mauthner (1840 -1894)." Erika Weinzierl, "The Jewish Middle Class in Vienna in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries": http://www.cas.umn.edu/assets/pdf/WP011.PDF Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London [email protected] http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5932 or send a blank email to leave-5932-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
