Neubauer, Otto

Contain manuscript notes of chemical formulae used in medical experiments performed on rabbits and dogs concerning liver and kidney function. Titles of experiments listed on the first pages of each notebook with accompanying page numbers.

Loose leaf documentation includes a postcard from Hans Fischer concerning continuing experiments, a death notice, an unfinished report, medical report from the pathology department of Munich Schwabing Hospital, 1932, a filled-in medical chart and correspondence, and an advertisement for nicotine soap.

Otto Neubauer (1874-1957), biochemist and clinician, was born in Karlsbad in the Austro-Hungarian empire and moved to Prague to study medicine at the German University of Prague (1892-1898). After graduation he remained at the university at the Pharmacology Institute. In 1901 Neubauer moved to Basel to work under Friedrich von Müller at the Medical Clinic and moved again in 1902 to the Medical Clinic in Munich where he was subsequently appointed to instructor of internal medicine (1909) and then assistant professor (1917). Neubauer was drafted to the German Army in 1915 where he served as a an Internist to the Bavarian Army Corps as well as the medical director of internal medicine in a military reserve hospital in Münich. In 1918 he was appointed head physician in Munich Schwabinger Hospital a role he maintained until 1933, when he was forced to leave the role under the Nazi regime and emigrate to England because he was Jewish. He conducted extensive successful experiments on amino acid and liver metabolism during his career.

The process for Neubauers' emigration to England was started by Dr Egon Radvany and Sir Ernest L. Kennaway of the Society of the Protection of Science and Learning and secured for him and his wife Lily in 1939. Neubauer emigrated to Oxford where he registered on the Foreign List of the British Medical Society in 1942. His patients included Leonid Pasternack and Lady Simon (nee Charlotte Muenchausen). Neubauer continued his medical research in the Radcliffe Science Library and published two works on arsenical carcinogenesis with the aid of grants from the Donner Foundation and the British Empire Cancer Campaign. He died in 1957.