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Rudolf Matzenauer

Born  1869
Died  1932

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Austrian dermatologist and venereologist, born April 29, 1869, Vienna; died September 9, 1932, Graz.

Biography of Rudolf Matzenauer

Rudolf Matzenauer studied in Vienna and recieved his doctorate there in 1894. From 1897 to 1902 he was assistant at the clinic for skin and veneral diseases under Isidor Neumann (1832-1906). He was habilitated in Vienna in 1902, becoming ausserordentlicher Professor in 1907, and in 1912 full professor in Graz, succeeding Karl Kreibich (1869-1932). 1924/1925 he was dean of the medical faculty in Graz.

Matzenauer was the discoverer of the maternal transfer of syphilis. Besides his own publications, he prepared the 2nd edition of Adolf Jarisch’s (1850-1902) book Die Hautkrankheiten (Vienna, 1908).

Bibliography

  • Impetigo contagiosa. Vienna, 1900.
  • Zur Kenntniss und Aetiologie des Hospitalbrands.
    Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, June 1901, 55 (2): 229-246.
  • Die Vererbung der Syphilis. Wien, Braumüller, 1903. 216 pages.
    Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, 1903, 65, Ergänzungsheft.
  • Lehrbuch der venerischen Erkrankungen. Vienna, 1904.
  • Die Prognose der Syphilis.
  • Die Therapie der Syphilis.
    In Handbuch der Geschlechtskrankheiten. Volume 3,3. Vienna and Leipzig, 1916.
  • Syphilis, Ulcus molle, parasitäre Hautkrankheiten am äusseren Genitale.
    In Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes. Volume 5,1. Berlin and Vienna 1926.
  • Ueber die Vererbung der Syphilis. Erwiederung auf Professors Fingers Angriffe.
    Wien, Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1903. 28 pages.

  • Viktor Bandler:
    Die Vererbung der Syphilis.
    Archiv für Dermatologie und Syphilis, 1903, 66 (1-2): 221-234.
    Referat über die in der k. k. Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien über diesen Gegenstand gepflogenen Verhandlungen nach den in der Wiener klinischen Wochenschrift Nr. 7-13, 1903, publizierten offiziellen Protokollen.
  • Ernst Gräfenberg, 1881-1957:
    Der Einfluss der Syphilis auf die Nachkommenschaft.
    Archiv für Gynäkologie, München, February 1909, 87 (1): 190-219.
  • Daisy Kopera, Helmut Kerl und Karl Holubar:
    Zur Geschichte der Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie in Graz. Eine Rückschau nach 125 Jahren (1873–1998).
    Der Hautarzt, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1998, 49 (10): 791-794.

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