!!!Gruber, Max von

b. Vienna, July 6, 1853, 
d. Berchtesgaden (Germany), Sept. 16, 1927, hygienist, son of 
Ignaz G. (1803-1872), first Austrian ear specialist, and brother of 
Franz v.  Gruber. Professor at the universities of Graz, Vienna and 
Munich, influenced Austrian sanitary legislation, member of the 
Sanitary Council, invented an internationally recognized method 
("Gruber Reaction") for the detection of infectious diseases (typhoid 
fever); discovered the "specific agglutination" of typhoid bacteria.

!Works
Hygiene des Geschlechtslebens, 1902; Handbuch der Hygiene 
1911ff. (with M. Rubner and P. M. Ficker); Fortpflanzung, 
Vererbung und Rassenhygiene, 1911.

!Literature
A. W. Forst, M. v. G., 1959.



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