Julius Mannaberg

Gyula Mannaberg, in German: Julius Mannaberg (Pest, 9 May 1860 – Vienna, 17 August 1941) was a Hungarian physician and researcher of Jewish heritage, and cousin of Rózsi Mannaberg (1895–1986), a pianist.

Life Mannaberg was born the son of Mihály Mannaberg (1829–1903), a merchant, and Róza Gutman (1830–1904). Between 1870 and 1878, he studied at the Royal Hungarian Teacher Training Institute's Practical High School. He continued his studies at the University of Vienna, where he was awarded a doctorate in medical sciences in 1884. His first job was in the dermatology department headed by Mór Kaposi. In 1891 he became assistant to the world famous internist Hermann Nothnagel. In 1890, he was awarded an Oppolzer Fellowship and was commissioned to detect the causative agent of malaria and to study the infection. He published a report on his research in 1893. He wrote the introduction and a chapter on bacteria for Nothangel's work on intestinal diseases, published in 1898. In March 1902, he was made an extraordinary professor by the University of Vienna, and in 1909 he became a member of the Supreme Medical Council. In the book Urologie by Frisch and Otto Zuckerkandl, he wrote the chapter on "Diseases of the kidneys and renal pelvis". In 1912 he was appointed deputy director of the Polyclinic, and after 1918 he was appointed director. In 1921 he presented a new clinical picture called 'Stenonephrie', in which he dealt with internal changes in the kidney. He was also concerned with the effects of hypertension on the internal secretory glands. He retired in 1930. His grave is in the Döbling cemetery.

He wrote articles on medical bacteriology for the Prague Vierteljahrschrift für Dermatologie (1887. Über die Mikroorganismen der normale Urethra sat.), the Zeitschrift für klinische Medicin (XVIII. Zur Aetiologie des Morbus Brightii sat.), and the Centralblatt für klinische Medicin (1891. Beiträge zur Morphologie des Plasmodium malariae tertianae) and other publications and was translated into English.

In 1936, he married Leopoldine Mannaberg. They had a daughter born in 1933.

Nazi era When Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938, Mannanberg was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage despite his conversion to Catholicism. In accordance with Nazi anti-Jewish laws he had to declare his assets so that they could be valued and confiscated. By 12 November 1938 he had sold much of his art collection. On 6 February 1939, he was ordered to pay a special tax that targeted Jews, the Jewish Asset Levy (Judenvermögensabgabe) of RM 22,000.