Max Schur, the man, died on 12 October 1969, suddenly and painlessly of a heart attack following pneumonia. His existence remains with gratitude and loving veneration in the minds and hearts of his wife, Dr Helen Schur and his two children, Dr Peter Schur and Eva Milofsky, as well as many devoted psychoanalytic colleagues, students and personal friends.

Born 26 September 1897 in Stanislau, Poland, he went to Vienna and received his M.D. from the University of Vienna in 1921. At 18, he attended Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis in 1915–1916, later had a personal analysis with Dr Ruth Mack Brunswick and became an associate member of the Vienna Institute in 1931. He combined practice and