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Paul Julius Möbius, professor in Leipzig
Paul Julius Möbius was a Leipzig neurologist and private lecturer, not a professor. A recent historical review of his career says he left university service as an assistant physician and later gave up his venia legendi as a private lecturer.
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This overstates Möbius's academic rank.
A historical review in Clinical Epileptology describes Paul Julius Möbius as a Leipzig neurologist, psychiatrist, and scientific publicist who "began an academic career as a physician" but ended it by leaving his assistant-physician post in 1888 and surrendering his venia legendi as a private lecturer in 1893. The same article states that this ended his university career.
That directly conflicts with calling him a "professor in Leipzig". The evidence supports that Möbius had university ties and lecturing rights, but not that he held a professorship there.
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- Paul Julius Möbius (1853-1907) über Epilepsie | Clinical Epileptology
He began an academic career as a physician at his home university but broke it off in 1888 by terminating his contract as an assistant physician at the university clinic and by returning his venia legendi as a private lecturer with the university in 1893.
- Paul Julius Möbius (1853-1907) über Epilepsie | Clinical Epileptology
First, this paper gives a brief summary of the biography of the Leipzig neurologist, psychiatrist and scientific publicist Paul Julius Möbius.