Editing Arthur Schnitzler (section)

== Life ==
[[File:Schnitzler-birthplace Praterstrasse1.JPG|thumb|Schnitzler's birthplace Praterstrasse 16]]
[[File:Arthur Schnitzler (um 1878).jpg|thumb|Schnitzler in 1878]]
Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, [[Leopoldstadt]], Vienna, capital of the [[Austrian Empire]] (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy of [[Austria-Hungary]]). He was the son of a prominent Hungarian [[laryngologist]], [[Johann Schnitzler]] (1835–1893), and Luise Markbreiter (1838–1911), a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter. His parents were both from [[History of the Jews in Austria|Jewish]] families.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Road-Open-Verite-European-Classics-ebook/dp/B00KUFP4QU/|title=The Road to The Open (JC Verite European Classics Book 1) – Kindle edition by Arthur Schnitzler, J. Chakravarti, Horace Samuel. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.|date=June 2014 }}</ref> In 1879 Schnitzler began studying medicine at the [[University of Vienna]] and in 1885 he received his doctorate of medicine. He began work at [[Vienna General Hospital|Vienna's General Hospital]] ({{langx|de|link=no|Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien}}), but ultimately abandoned the practice of medicine in favour of writing.

On 26 August 1903, Schnitzler married Olga Gussmann (1882–1970), a 21-year-old aspiring actress and singer who came from a Jewish middle-class family. They had a son, [[Heinrich Schnitzler|Heinrich]] (1902–1982), born on 9 August 1902. In 1909 they had a daughter, Lili, who committed suicide in 1928. The Schnitzlers separated in 1921. Schnitzler died on 21 October 1931 in Vienna of a [[brain haemorrhage]]. In 1938, following the [[Anschluss]], his son Heinrich went to the United States and did not return to Austria until 1959; he is the father of the Austrian musician and conservationist [[Michael Schnitzler]], born in 1944 in Berkeley, California, who moved to Vienna with his parents in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regenwald.at/de/project-information/who-is-michael-schnitzler.html |title=Michael Schnitzler - Musician and Conservationist |access-date=25 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220033139/http://www.regenwald.at/de/project-information/who-is-michael-schnitzler.html |archive-date=20 February 2012  }}</ref>