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Max Neuburger, Jewish Doctor, Art nouveau linocut ex-libris on the book: Sir Galahad “Idiotenfuehrer”, 1925, in German - Max Neuburger, Jewish Doctor, Art nouveau linocut ex-libris on the book: Sir Galahad “Idiotenfuehrer”, 1925, in German Art nouveau linocut ex-libris of Max Neuburger, signed by the artist Xaver Rief in the plate , size: 9.5 x 6 cm. (3.7 x 2.3 inches) The book: Sir Galahad, Idiotenführer durch die russische Literatur. München : A. Langen, 1925. 164 pp. ; 1st ed. , hard cover, 22 x 15 cm. Condition: cover stained, spine is missing, binding is tight’ some stains to endpapers and edges. Weight: 310 gr. Max Neuburger (8 December 1868 in Vienna – 15 March 1955, Vienna) was an Austrian physician and historian of medicine. Born in Vienna on 8 December 1868, he ”descended from Jewish families which had long been resident in Munich and Hamburg”, his father, a linguist, moving out of Munich and becoming an Austrian subject in 1859, while his mother, an invalid, prompted the young Max to become a doctor, the future historian of medicine, during his youth, being well-versed in Greek, Latin and German literature, and particularly fond of philosophy