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For the American rabbi, see Max Landsberg.

Max Landesberg (1840 – 4 March 1895) was a Romanian physician and oculist.

He was born to a Jewish family in Iași in 1840. He was educated at the gymnasium at Ratibor and at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1865). After a postgraduate course under Graefe, Landesberg went to the United States, where he practised in New York and Philadelphia. He was the American editor of the Revue d'Ophthalmologie of Paris.

In 1894, he moved to Florence, Italy, dying there the next year.

Publications

  • De blennorrhoea neonatorum (Thesis). University of Berlin. 1865.
  • Beiträge zur variokösen Ophthalmie. Elberfeld: Bädeker. 1874.
  • Zur Statistik der Linsenkrankheiten. Cassel: T. Fischer. 1876.
  • On the Etiology and Prophylaxis of Blindness. New York: William Wood & Co. 1878.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610.

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  2.  Singer, Isidore; Haneman, Frederick T. (1904). "Landesberg, Max". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 610.
  3. Brinton, D. G.; Edwards, Joseph F., eds. (17 October 1885). "News and Misceilany". The Medical and Surgical Reporter. 53. Philadelphia: 455.
  4. Eulenburg, A., ed. (14 March 1895). "Kleine Mittheilungen". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrif. 21 (11). Leipzig & Berlin: G. Thieme: 184.
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