Physician, dermatologist
Isidor Neumann, Edel von Heilwart, (Knight of Hochwart), was born in Misslitz, Moravia (now Miroslav, in the Czech Republic). In 1875 he became associate professor and in 1893 full professor of dermatology and syphilology at the University of Vienna. He published several treatises on skin diseases: Lehrbuch der Hautkrankheiten (5th ed., 1880), which has been translated into many languages; Atlas der Hautkrankheiten (2nd ed., 1895); Die Syphilis (appeared in Nothnagel’s Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie, 2nd ed., 1899).
Skin and venereal diseases, the two subjects that he helped to bound together, were accepted as such in the learning plan for the University. Neumann worked on the histology of skin diseases stressing its connection with the clinic aspects of those diseases. He was an expert in a number of skin diseases, such as Pemphigus Vegetans and the Dermatitis Circumscripta Herpetiformis. As a teacher he was a brilliant lecturer and as a physician an excellent diagnostician, who won international fame. Neumann was the director of the Vienna Clinic for Dermatology and Syphilis. Isidor Neumann died in Voeslau, near Vienna in 1906.