Max Holzmann
# Max Holzmann

Max Holzmann (31 March 1899 – 27 January 1994) was a Swiss cardiologist.

## Early life

Max Holzmann was born on 31 March 1899 in Zurich, the son of physician Moritz Holzmann and Anna Helena Lerch. Holzmann took a degree in medicine in Zurich and Lausanne, and in 1923 graduated with a doctor of medicine degree. Holzmann worked as a doctor in Vienna, Paris and at the University Hospital in Zurich.

Holzmann taught from 1959 to 1969 as a lecturer and honorary professor at the University of Zurich. He also acted in 1948 as co-founder of the Swiss Society of Cardiology, of which he was president from 1952 to 1955.

## Later life

He died on 27 January 1994 in Zurich, two months before his 95th birthday.

## Personal life

In 1931, Holzmann married Elisa, daughter of Emil Rüegg, in Zurich.

## Publications

Holzmann published over a hundred papers on radiology and electrocardiography.

* Clinical Electrocardiography (textbook), 1945–1965, 5th edition

## Honours

* 1955, Marcel Benoist Prize awarded, for his textbook and his life's work
