Philipp Schwartz
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Born19 July 1894
Versec, Austria-Hungary
Died1 December 1977 (aged 83)
Fort Lauderdale, U.S.
FieldsPathology
Philipp Schwartz | |
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| Born | 19 July 1894 Versec, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1 December 1977 (aged 83) Fort Lauderdale, U.S. |
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| Fields | Pathology |
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Philipp Schwartz (19 July 1894 – 1 December 1977) was a Hungarian-born neuropathologist. In the interwar period he was a professor in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a major figure in the community of German émigré scientists after 1933 and founded the Emergency Association of German Scientists Abroad.
Schwartz was born on 19 July 1894 in Versec. He studied medicine in Budapest and earned his doctorate there in 1919. In the same year, he became an assistant of Bernhard Fischer at the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology at the University of Frankfurt, where he worked for the next 14 years. He earned his Habilitation in 1923, became an associate professor in 1926 and a full professor in 1927.
