Max Marcuse

{{Short description|German dermatologist and sexologist (1877–1963)}}

Max Marcuse (April 14, 1877, Berlin{{spaced ndash}}June 24, 1963, Tel Aviv) was a German dermatologist and sexologist.{{cite book|title=Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914|author=Dickinson, E.R.|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107040717|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIcqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA245|page=245|accessdate=2017-02-17}}{{cite book|title=What Is Psychoanalysis?: 100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'|author=Barratt, B.B.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136211058|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWw8OJ7-YWUC&pg=PA11|page=11|accessdate=2017-02-17}}{{cite journal|title=A forgotten giant: Dr Max Marcuse, one of the founders of the science of sexology | pmid=11620805 | volume=11 | author=Levy A, Ohry A| journal=Adler Mus Bull| pages=13–6| year=1985| issue=3 }}{{cite book|title=Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914|author=Dickinson, E.R.|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107040717|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIcqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|page=117|accessdate=2017-02-17}} He became an editor for Magnus Hirschfeld’s Journal of Sexology in 1919 and continued editing the journal until 1932. Marcuse immigrated to Palestine in 1933, following the Nazi rise to power. Several of Marcuse's unpublished writings are being preserved at the Kinsey Institute.