Rudolf Marburg, M.D., died on November 24, 2000. He was 88 years old and had been in declining health for the past two years. Dr. Marburg retired from the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and numerous teaching activities fifteen years ago. He had been an important and influential member of the Baltimore mental health community for the preceding four decades. He was an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst of The Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis and was a highly esteemed supervisor for residents in training at The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital.

Rudy was born in Augsburg, Germany. He graduated from medical school in Freiburg. He immigrated to this country and completed an OB/Gyn residency in Miami. He then completed his psychiatric training at SEPH, where he met his future wife, Louise, a Music Therapist and a gifted pianist. She and their four children survive him.

Dr. Marburg became a leader in the Baltimore and Washington psychoanalytic community, and was especially known for his impassioned investment in the significance of culture in life in general, and specifically as it informs psychoanalytic understanding. His remarkable capacity to experience life fully in the present, to experience and to share moments of both great joy and sorrow, and his personal warmth and vivacity were hallmarks of his expansive personality-- qualities appreciated by family, colleagues, students, friends, and patients.

Rudy enthusiastically pursued his interests in choral and orchestral music, theater, travel, art, and archaeology until the limitations imposed by more frequent and serious physical illness gradually made incursions in recent years. Even during the final weeks of his life, as it was clear to him that he was dying, he faced the future courageously, with characteristic grace and humor. He continued to listen to radio broadcasts of opera and concerts, and appreciatively to receive visiting friends and family. For many of us, he was our curator of culture and friendship, and his impact will be felt for many years to come.