physician and dermatologist
Auspitz was born in Nikolsburg, Moravia (now Mikulov, Czech Republic) as a Jew, who later was baptized. He was among the young Jewish assistants of Ferdinand von Hebraz at the Kraetze Klinik in Vienna. From 1872 he was director of the dermatology department at the Policlinic in Vienna and from 1875 was a.Professor of Dermatology and Syphilidology. In 1884 Auspitz became director of the dermatology clinic at the University of Vienna.
Auspitz, who became world famous, wrote a very important work about soap and its use in the treatment of skin-affections. He was the publisher of the Archiv fuer Dermatologie und Syphilis and of the quarterly paper Der Dermatologie. He also wrote the stimulating and gripping book System der Hautkrankheiten (1881.) In the Ziemsen’schen Handbuch he contributed with Die Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten (Pathology and Therapy of Skin Diseases).