Eugen Marx studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 2 July 1906. He specialised in ophthalmics and established himself as an ophthalmist in Rotterdam. He obtained his doctoral degree on 10 July 1925 in Leiden on a thesis 'On the sensitivity of the cornea'. He became an unsalaried university lecturer in Leiden.
Eugen Marx lived at 26b Oranjelaan in Rotterdam. He practised in the Institute for Eye Patients in Rotterdam, of which he was briefly doctor-director together with H.J. Flieringa. Furthermore, he had a practice in the outpatients' clinic in Rotterdam. He was also secretary of the International Ophthalmological Council and chairman of the Dutch Association of Opthalmologists.
Eugen Marx was married. He took his own life together with his wife on 15 May 1940.
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 115
Biography