Schur, Max

Biographical Note

• 1897, Sept. 27: Born, Stanislau, Poland (Austro-Hungarian Empire)
• 1915 - 1916 : Attended Sigmund Freud's introductory lectures on psychoanalysis at Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, Vienna, Austria
• 1915 - 1920 : Attended University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria
• 1921: Received doctor of medicine degree, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• 1922 - 1938 : Austrian equivalent of resident, adjunct, and associate physician in the department of medicine, Vienna Polyclinic Hospital, Vienna, Austria
• 1925 - 1930 : Analysand of Dr. Ruth Mack-Brunswick Received formal training in psychoanalysis
• 1928 - 1939 : Personal physician of Sigmund Freud
• 1932: Associate member, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Vienna, Austria
• 1938: Immigrated to England with Sigmund Freud to attend to his illness
• 1939: Immigrated to United States
• 1947 - 1951 : Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, New York University, New York, N.Y.
• 1951 - 1968 : Assistant clinical professor and professor of psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
• 1966: Published The Id and the Regulatory Principles of Mental Functioning. New York: International Universities Press
• 1968: Clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• 1969, Oct. 12: Died, New York, N.Y.
• 1972: Posthumous publication of Freud: Living and Dying. New York: International Universities Press

From the guide to the Max Schur Papers, 1923-1974, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)