Hans Hoff
Hans Hoff · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist influential in mid-century Austrian neuropsychiatry
1897, Vienna, Austria — 1969, Vienna, Austria
Austria · United States · Iraq
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Hoff, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, was a central figure in mid-twentieth-century Viennese neuropsychiatry. Forced to flee the Nazis, he worked in the United States and helped establish modern psychiatry in Baghdad before returning to head the Psychiatric-Neurological Clinic of the University of Vienna. He trained a generation of clinicians and modernised Austrian psychiatry.
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Psychiatrist influential in mid-century Austrian neuropsychiatry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
